MWSD celebrates its new well

On Tuesday morning, the Montara Water and Sanitary District commissioned its latest water source, the Alta Vista well, reports Julia Scott in the County Times.

The Alta Vista well is located in the foothills of Montara Mountain, five miles and several valleys east of Devil’s Slide. At its peak level of service, the Montara Water and Sanitary District is confident it can provide 6.5 million gallons of water a month to customers.

That will almost meet the basic legal standards the district must achieve to both recover from its deficit and supply enough water for the fire district in case of emergencies, said district Board President Bob Ptacek.
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"I’m assuming we’re going to have enough to serve the ones who are on the wells and the ones who develop," he said.

The new well will also enable the district to reduce the amount of water they extract from three other wells its customers rely on, situated under the Half Moon Bay Airport. The county owns the airport and charges the district $50,000 in extraction fees every year, according to Ptacek.
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Ptacek says the district now hopes to make up the rest of its water deficit by drilling some wells along a Caltrans-owned strip of land southeast of Montara Mountain. State Assemblyman Gene Mullin will re-submit a bill he introduced last year to get the district permission to explore the area.

There are two videos (Ribbon Cutting and Water Flowing) of the new well’s opening on Montara Fog.