HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1914-8-B RESOLUTION #8-B
Original Resolution Missing
Excerpt from minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting of
February 17, 1914
The following resolution, on motion duly seconded,
was unanimously adopted:
"Whereas, we have had called to our attention the
Decision of the State Railway Commission in the case of
the Frank Turnbull Company, vs the Sweetwater Water Company
known as case #472, which was made on the 30th day of
January, 1914, wherein, among other things, the Commission
ordered the water company to supply water to a certain
tract of land owned by the Frank Turnbull Company, which land
lies at the extreme northerly end of the Sweetwater Water
Company's distributing system, and which lies so high as
to require the construction of a tank for the purpose of
furnishing water to said land;
And whereas, there are more than a thousand acres of
land lying within the area covered by the distributing
system of said water company, lying on levels so that
they may be easily supplied by the natural gravity pressure
of said system without the construction and maintainance
of any auxilliary equipment, to which water is not now
supplied by the said company:
And whereas, we regard the precedent established by
said order as injurious and dangerous and directly
affecting the interests and rights of all the present
consumers under said system, and as throwing upon them an
additional, unjust and unnecessary burden, and as greatly
impairing, as to them, the efficiency of the said system;
And whereas, there are about fifteen hundred consumers,
owning property located under said system to the value of
more than three million dollars, residing within the
City of Chula Vista, who are using the water of said
Sweetwater Water Company, and entirely dependent thereon,
and who have no other means of obtaining water, either
for domestic or irrigating purposes;
And whereas, we believe that the precedent established
in said case, if allowed to stand, will directly impair the
value of all of said property;
And whereas, we are informed that Mr. Haroun, the former
Engineer of the said Railway Commission, testified in the
rate fixing case of the Sweetwater Water Company, at a
recent hearing, that in his judgment the Sweetwater Water
Company is now supplying water to its full safe capacity
to present consumers;
And whereas, we believe it would be dangerous to
establish a precedent extending the present limits of said
water system in any particular, and particularly to extend
it to lands which cannot be supplied under the natural
gravity flow of said system without resorting to
auxilliary means ;
Now, therefore, Be it Resolved by the Board of Trustees
of the City of Chula Vista, California that we earnestly
urge the Sweetwater Company to apply for a rehearing in
said case, if it is not too late now to do so, and that
our City Attorney is hereby instructed to confer with said
company immediately, and render any assistance in the premises
he may be able to do, and that in case such rehearing is
granted, that he take such steps as may be necessary, that
this City and its inhabitants may, if possible, intervene
in said cause as parties in interest.
And be it further resolved that a copy of these
resolutions be forwarded to the said Sweetwater Water
Co. , immediately.
Said motion is carried, all voting aye.