59R-5063
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RESOLUTION NO, 5063
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUBCIL OF THE CITY
OJ' ANAHEIM URGING '1'R1ll ORAIG! COUlT'!'Y RlCPRE-
SDTATIV:lS IN THE IJIlGISl.ATUU 'l'O OPPOSE ASSEMBI,y
BILL NO, 286, Am) ANY SIMILAR BILLS THAT MIGH'!'
BE INTRODUCE IN'l'O THE IJIlGISLA'!'UU :roR OPINING
LAD MATBBWS TO 1'9 PUBLIC,
lfR1Imll.S. AlISembly Bill 286 has been introduced into the Calif-
ornia Legislature, which authorizes the Board of Supervisors of a county wherein
a body of water owned by a governmental agency is located to request that the
water and surrounding area be opened to fishing and other recreation, and fur-
ther providing that the owning governmental agency upon a determination that
such uses will not affect purity, either open the water and surrounding area,
or submit the matter to a vote of its constituents. and open the water aDd sur-
rounding area if a majority of the voters approye; aDd
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that Lake Mathews is the ter-
minus of the Colorado River Aqueduct, and that all water imported by means of
the aqueduct from the metropolitan reservoirs and intake and lake at Parker
passes thrOUCh this reservoir except that which is used in San Diego County, in
the Eastern Municipal Water District area of Riverside County. and in the Elsinore
portion of Western MUnicipal Water District of Riverside County, That all water
leaving the reservoir is transported to the users and municipalities in the Los
Angeles Basin through feeders; that the upper feeder extends northerly to the
vicinity of Fontana. and westerly to the softening and filtration plant at La
Yerne. and after being softened and filtered it is distributed thrOUCh feeders to
the users in Southern California; and
WHEREAS, the City Council does further find that if Lake Mathews
were opened for fishing aDd other recreational purposes, that the regulations of
the State Department of Public Health would require the filtration as well as the
chlorination of all water from the reservoir that is used for domestic purposes,
and that therefore either all of the water in Lake Mathews would have to be
chlorinated. and filtered at a central plant as it leaves the lake, or water for
domestic purposes diverted from the upper feeder between Lake Mathews and the
La Verne plant and from the lower feeder between Lake Mathews and the Yorba
Linda plant would have to be chlorinated and filtered in the individual plants
located at various service connections along the two feeders, and the said
Council does find and determine that the opening of this lake to fishing and
other recreational purposes would be highly detrimental to the health and safety
of the people of the City of Anaheim and other Southern California cities and
municipalities, and that the construction of chlorination and filter stations
to filter and chlorinate the water. and the pI1rchase of chlorine or other sub-
stances for that purpose, would be extremely expensive and would im~ose a great
tax burden upon the people of Southern California and the residents of the Metro-
politan Water District.
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NOW, THmREPORE, BE IT RlCSOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Anaheim that the enactment of Assembly Bill 286 be opposed for the above and
foregoing reasons, and particularly because of the hazard to the public health
and safety and the increase in taxes, and that the representatives of Orange
County in the California Legislature be urged to oppose the enactment of this
bill, and any similar lech1ation that may be offered for enactment.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOJ.'IED that a certified copy of this reso-
lution be prepared and Bent to the Honorable John Murdy, Jr., State Senator~
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and to the Honorable Bruce 5UJ11ner and the Honorable Richard T. Hanna, State
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THE FORJlGOIBG RlSOLU'l'IOB passed and adopted this 3rd day of
March. 1959.
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MAY R OF C1 Y OF ANAHEIM
AT'l'BST:
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CI Ct;IIRI OF THE CITY OF AlWiIIM
STA'5 or CALIFORNIA
COUlfty OJ' ORAllGE .. .
CITY or .UAHEIM
I, DID M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing re.olution was palsed and adopted at an
adjotlrned regular meeting of the City Council held on the 3rd day of March,
1959, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: OOUBCILMlN:
Borden, Fry and SChutte
NOES: COUNC ILMD:
None
ABSENT: OOUlfCILMmf:
Coons and Pearson
AND I FURTHER CKRTIJ'Y that the MSTor of the City of Anahei.
approved and signed said resolution on the )rd dST of March. 1959.
IN WI'l'DSS WHiUUlOF, I have hereunto set my hand and a1'fixed
the seal of the City of Anaheim this 3rd day of March. 1959.
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OI!! CLllRX or THE CITY OF A1UDIM
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