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Advisory group hears how state can order consolidations — but not dictate local governance
Summary
Board counsel and members discussed the agency's authority to require consolidations or administration of failing systems, and limits on directing annexation or governance changes.
Members of the State Water Resources Control Board’s advisory group discussed the board’s authority to order consolidations for failing water systems and the practical limits of that authority.
Board legal staff and members said the board can compel a physical and managerial consolidation — for example, ordering a failing system to connect to a neighboring system that has adequate drinking water supply — but it cannot force a specific governance…
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