Unused water allocations for businesses in Pacific Grove may be handed over to homeowners on the city’s water waiting list.

The City Council on Wednesday voted 6-1 to approve a resolution allocating unused water credits and introduced a draft ordinance that would allow payment for unused public water credits held by the city.

Pacific Grove has a waiting list of applicants seeking permits to build new homes or businesses or to add bathrooms or other water-using facilities.

Property owners were notified by letter of the city’s intent to assign the credits. In one case, Tibor Rudas — who owns a commercial building at 610 Lighthouse Ave. and holds a 2.5 acre-foot allocation issued in 1996 for development of a 125-seat restaurant — was told to submit a building permit application and complete it in 60 days, and to assign an unused 1.57 acre-feet of water to the waiting list.

Now all you need is some $$ to build those bathrooms and businesses. Businesses? How much water does an art gallery use anyway?

Water Credits Up For Grabs

Four months ago, plumbers doing work on the house pointed out a leak at the water meter that connects to the house.

“It’s not visible to the naked eye. You have to lift the cover,”

Plumbers who found the leak called California American Water Company and told them about the problem.

Cal Am’s own employees HAD to have seen this when the check the meter every month, right? In the meantime, they spend money on advertisements telling us to save the precious H20 they suck out of the ground and charge us for . .

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