GROVER H2O

Grover Beach City Council members will fully transition from at-large elections to district elections by the November 5, 2024 General Election as shown on this map. The Mayor is elected at large. Council Member Zimmerman was appointed to fill n at-large citywide vacancy. Council Member Rushing was elected in District 2.

Central Coast Blue proposes to inject (in Phase 1 ($158m) +/- 1,000 acre-feet of purified wastewater into our aquifer every year. Natural recharge is about the same amount. But Central Coast Blue will draw 2,500 acre-feet a year from the aquifer, creating a 500 acre foot a year cumulative deficit. That's going by the Central Coast Blue estimates. Outside experts question whether there will be any 

Screenshot from the Environmental Impact Report Addendum: plan to drill 16 wells in Grover neighborhoods.  Follow the black numerals for the count & locations. Mayor Bright says in her response to the recall that it is only 5 wells. More recent verbal reports from Central Coast Blue say it will be only 3 injection wells, 5 monitoring wells, and a new well for Pismo Beach. Most of the wells cluster

The area inside the red lines is the property owned by Grover & Pismo now a part of Central Coast Blue.

This graphic from Central Coast Blue shows the water in and the water out IF we were currently drawing 2,500 acre-feet a year from our aquifer and if we draw 2,500 acre-feet per year with the CCB project. However, we draw only 1,000 acre feet a year and that is sufficient to supply the City of Grover Beach. 

When citizens arrived at the Dec. 11, 2023 Grover city council meeting to protest the water & sewer rate increase there were only 38 chairs available for a room that could hold 104 occupants. They were turned away by police and told to go home or stand outside.