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From: Mitch <mitch@errur.com> <br />Date: May 16, 2022 at 8:13:53 PM PDT <br />To: _Council <CityCouncil@sanleandro.org> <br />Cc: "Robustelli, Fran" <FRobustelli@sanleandro.org>, Douglas Spalding <dougspalding@yahoo.com>, bashcraft@babrt.org <br />Subject: EBMUD Presentation - not clear, also gray water request <br />[Some people who received this message don't often get email from mitch@errur.com. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] <br /> <br />ATTENTION: This email is from an external source, outside of the City. While attachments and links are scanned by our Advanced Threat Protection service, we still recommend you use caution <br /> when opening or clicking them. Unless you recognize the sender and have an expectation that the content is safe, it is best to ignore this email and report it to the Helpdesk. Sincerely, <br /> Your IT Team <br /> <br /> <br />Hi all, <br /> <br />I read the EBMUD presentation prior to the meeting and listened to him and it was not at all clear to me that he was proposing turning ground water into water that we would use as drinking <br /> water (aside from Bayside, which they pushed through against many of our meetings and protests and complaints years ago). <br /> <br />I am also concerned with the idea of using groundwater for drinking. (And to his claim that the wealthier areas don’t have groundwater as a discussion because they don’t have something <br /> like Bayside, that is because they    would have voted down Bayside to begin with.) <br /> <br />I *do* think, however, that using ground water for irrigation is something we need to move toward so that we don’t use so much drinking water for grass. I also reiterate that if we as <br /> a city not only make it easy and cheap, but make real efforts to get home owners to implement gray water systems, we would reduce our city wide usage of drinking water AND increase <br /> the ground water levels as well. <br /> <br />Aside from any changes EBMUD is recommending about irrigating with ground water, I ask you to seriously look at changing rules and regulations around gray water to make it easy and cheap <br /> for people in this city to use less drinking water. <br /> <br />Thanks, <br />Mitch Huitema <br />Pronouns: she/her/her