Crystal Geyser to tap Siskiyou County groundwater

Salad fish from Mount shastas carry bottles filled with spring water from the Sacramento River source water in Mount shastas, California, on Tues.April 28, 2015.The Crystal Fountain is opening a bottling plant nearby, and there is no environmental review or restriction at a time when others in the state are required to cut water substantially.Non-CaliforniaThis is permitted by existing groundwater use laws.The lessShara Fish in shastas Mountain carries bottles filled with spring water from the Sacramento River source water in shastas Mountain, California., on Tues.April 28, 2015.The Crystal Fountain is opening a bottling plant nearby, and there is no environmental review or restriction at a time when others in the state are required to cut water substantially.Non-CaliforniaThis is permitted by existing groundwater use laws.The LessA private bottling company will soon draw thousands of gallons of water from the reservoir that supplies the Sacramento River every day, the main source of drinking water for millions of thirsty Californian people, who are struggling to cope with fouryear drought.Plans for Crystal Fountain.This fall, the water faucet was sunk into the Big Spring, which was drilled out of the lava pipe at the bottom of the shastas Mountain, which is allowed because the National Water Resources Control Commission considers it groundwater, and the California groundwater monitoring regulations have been in place for several years.Calistoga suppliers of Sparkling mineral water and juice do not need to do environmental impact reports or obtain permission from the state to bottle and sell such scarce resources for California farmers to allow crops to rest, and the water authority is making plans, let customers receive rationing.\"They don\'t need our water if they use groundwater,\" said Tim Moran, spokesman for the water authority.\"Historically, there has been no regulation of groundwater in California.The move angered many of the 3,394 inhabitants of environmental protection, the American Indian tribe and the City of shastashan, and no one could believe that a company was allowed to drink the same water as the rest of the state was ordered to keep.They are worried about bottling work, one of the 108 bottling jobs in California that could dry up the well and run out of the reservoir, which fills the rivers and streams in the County of sishiki, and\"We need to have some kind of limitation on the damage they cause to the aquifer,\" Bruce Hillman said .\" He led a local group called \"We advocate a thorough environmental review,\" that is\"Now, because this is private property, there is no limit to the amount of water they can extract.\"The timber mill siteCrystal geyser pays $5 million at 145,000 on 2013-square-The foot bottling plant, once the site of the cedar wood plant, was designated as a heavy industry use.The project covers an area of 266 acres and was abandoned by coca.Coke stopped selling spring water in 2010.The facility is under county jurisdiction, but must use the city services originally planned to produce juice, flavored tea and mint drinks, which will require an upgrade of a waste treatment system of approximately $10 million.Since then, company officials have changed their minds and are now planning to produce only mineral water when the factory opens, possibly sometime in September.The company plans to eventually phase out its Calistoga and Bakersfield plants and move the entire mineral water branch it operates to Siskiyou County, which is for 26 neighboring homeowners who rely on tap waterThe organization says county officialsIn the absence of the need for an environmental review or a guarantee from the crystal fountain that no water consumption will be increased, a project with high environmental risk is stamped.He said that the company abandoned fruit and tea drinks in order to prevent opponents from invoking the California Environmental Quality Act and asking for an environmental report on the upgrade of these foods.RequiredGreg is not allowed to charter a charter flight, director of community development in sishayu County, who says his department has no power to demand environmental review, because the county does not require the operator or other approval of \"discretionary action.Shortly after the facility was completed in 2000, he said, the Regional Water Quality Control Commission determined that there was no significant environmental impact.Even so, digging the big spring should require the crystal fountain to submit a transfer statement and use it with the National Water Resources Control Commission to transfer \"underground streams\" that flow through known and identified channels, Hillman said \".But the water authority spokesman, Moran, said the request did not apply because the water came from the existing 200-On the broken rock, not from the underground stream, the well with deep feet.\"These waters are considered to be permeable groundwater and do not require a water rights permit, permit or statement,\" he said, adding that bottled water is considered a \"reasonable and beneficial use \", like other industries such as food processing plants and production facilities.\"According to the law, bottled water is the legal use of water,\" said Nancy Vogel, a spokeswoman for the California water ministry .\".The Crystal Fountain plans to start with a bottling line that uses an average of 115,000 gallons of water per day.The second line will be opened in five to seven years, using an average of 217,000 gallons of water per day, up to 365,000 gallons per day.Coca-Officials at the Crystal Fountain say Coke uses 250,000 to 300,000 gallons a day.Judy yeer, executive vice president of marketing and business strategy for Crystal Fountain, said flavored drinks and tea will be added in 2016, possibly after the sewer issue is resolved.\"We have the same concerns as all California people,\" said Yee .\".\"Since joining the shastashan community, we have maintained regular communication with community leaders and professional engineers and geologists to ensure that our operations are sustainable and do not affect the environment in any harmful way.\"The amount of water that glacier water is using is only part of the melting glacier water flowing out of 14,179 --At the foot of the Shastar mountain, it flows into numerous streams, springs and tributaries of the Sacramento River, the macrowen River and the Klamath River.After 602, most of the water was capturedfoot-The gaoshasta Dam is part of the Central Valley Project, a huge federal system that provides water for fish, irrigation, drinking water and electricity.Critics say, however, this is an example of California\'s ancient groundwater laws failing to protect historic public resources from being mined.According to the Ministry of Water Resources, an average of 40% of California\'s water supply comes from groundwater.It is estimated that there are between 1 million and 2 million wells across the state, and Water Authority officials say there are as many wells dug each year.So much water was pulled out of the ground.In Central Valley alone, 800 billion gallons a year.The ground is sinking in many areas.Until the governor.Jerry Brown signed groundwater legislation and California is the only Western state with no underground pumping regulations.The newly adopted Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will limit the use of groundwater, ensure that groundwater is replenished and require farmers to measure and report the water they pump.However, it will take years to implement the regulation.The heaviest users do not need to submit plans to the state by 2020, and most of the SDGs are not expected to be achieved by 2040.According to the new regulations, the groundwater in the Big Spring will not even drop.At least not at first.This is because it has not been determined that the aquifer is a \"major overdraft Basin \".\"There is no specific regulation and data collection specifically for the bottled water industry in California,\" said Vogel .\".\"When we fully implement this law, we will get more information about the pumping of the industry, including the bottled water industry.\"Community liaison officer Raven Stevens, who is close to the portal Community Association, said she is consulting experts and conducting altitude studies on 26 wells nearby so that when the plant is up and running, they have baseline data.\"The Crystal Fountain plans to pump out more water in a day than any of my three neighbors use in a year,\" Stevens said .\".\"The whole state has cut by 25%, the farmers have taken the fields to rest, and we don\'t have a piece of legislation that regulates bottled water.\"The residents of siskayu County are used to fighting outsiders for the spring they dream.A few years ago, residents of the nearby town of McCloud had a fierce battle with Nestle, which proposed 1 million-square-Foot bottle factory.Nestlé withdrew in 2008 after being threatened.Unless the county first assesses the impact of global warming on future water supply, Attorney General Jerry Brown will sue.No one asked the crystal fountain to consider global warming, drought or environmental impacts this time, Stevens said.Stevens said: \"The problem is that no matter what they say, they will not introduce any agencies or regulations to bind them.\"Peter Fimrite is a special contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle.E-Postage: pfimrite @ sfronicle.