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Montecito Creek on East Valley Road
updated: Sep 24, 2012, 9:48 AM
By Woody Jackson
Citizens pay for rescuing steelhead and pumping water into dewatered hot springs creek while
water
company lies about how much water they are diverting. Land Trust for SB County owns half the
water--the key to steelheads survival-but mysteriously gives it to the the profit of the Montecito
Creek Water Company for watering estate lawns, rather than saving fish.
This summer NOAA rescued steelhead at taxpayers expense and moved the steelhead to Mission
Creek.
I was further informed by a NOAA representative that the city of Santa Barbara spends funds (grant
or taxpayer) on Montecito Creek at East Valley Road.
Land Trust for Santa Barbara County could have provided advance notice to Montecito Creek Water
Company to prepare for ending the 50% permissive taking of Hot Springs Creek before purchasing Hot
Springs Canyon. As a conservation based organization Land Trust for Santa Barbara County had a
duty and responsibility to the public and community to send by certified mail 180 day notice to
revert to the 1897 water rights and release water for watershed restoration and downstream
steelhead habitat.
Grossly inaccurate and false information provided by Montecito Creek Water Company as an
example
of the diversion form linked below. Their claim is that they are only taking or diverting 10% of
the water when the reality on the creek bed is 95% diversion.
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/ewrims/statements/docs/s013976.pdf
10,000 years of human interaction along with steelhead is being destroyed right before our
eyes.
Our silence is our complicity. We all have responsibility for good stewardship. Please help.
Montecito Creek on East Valley Road
Creek bed of Hot Springs Creek after new pipework to cap the springs by Montecito Creek Water
Company while a conservation organization (Land Trust for Santa Barbara County) refuses to release
it's control of the groundwater rights.
Montecito Creek Water Company with the assistance of Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and it's
(few) donors for the campaign to save Hot Springs Canyon have ethical conflict of interest. This
new pipework was by consent of Land Trust for Santa Barbara County.
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/ewrims/statements/docs/s013976.pdf
False claim is that Montecito Creek Water Company is only diverting 10% of the capped springs.
Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and Montecito Creek Water Company are now partners in the
"taking" of steelhead an endangered species.
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