Edhat StaffBy an edhat reader
I have lived in the neighborhood adjoining Westmont College for over 15 years and I have watched the water usage by the college on the campus athletic fields: the double-wide soccer practice fields, the baseball field, and the track infield.
During our current crisis with a water shortage and boil water notice, I noticed the fields still appear to be watered and saturated. Does anyone know if they’re allowed to continue this water usage during the current limitations?
I’ve heard the college has a grandfathered-in water right to draw from the aquifer under Cold Spring Creek, but does anyone know if that’s true?
With all that has been going on, is this really a major concern right now?
This is a legitimate concern. We are still in a drought, and the recent tragedy does not change that. But I have no information. Maybe the lawns look especially green due to the rain last week? Ins there a public info office at Westmont that can address this?
Boy are we ever a community of whiners and complainers. In the middle of a double natural emergency, the largest wildfire in California history followed by a rainstorm of biblical proportions that we are still digging ourselves out of, workers not being able to get to work and earn a paycheck, landlords and bills still requiring to be paid, victims of the mudflow still unaccounted for and dozens of families left homeless and here comes a zinger out in left field… literally. And why only pick on Westmont? Is SBCC watering it’s lawns? UCSB? Any and all other properties in the school district? Sheesh… can we take a breather from all the finger pointing and blaming?