Letter: Water issue runs beneath the surface

This letter is in response to the letter written by Lloyd Leighton (“Stop patching, start fixing,” June 8).

I do not think you realize the complete cost of the new surface water. It will not only cost the $20 you refer to, but we will have to continue to pay the $20 or so that we pay now for the bonds already acquired along with the usage shown on the new water meters we will be getting. So in reality we could be facing an $80 water bill.

This may be chump change to you, but I am single and I only have so much of the resource called money to go around. Also, just recently in the news, one California town is reverting back to ground water due to the lack of available river water. What if we have no snow pack?

There is only so much water in the river and everyone wants to tap into it. It will run dry.

Brenda Owen
Yuba City