HomeMy WebLinkAbout6998 - Closure of Prado DamRESOLUTION N0. 6998
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH STATING ITS POSITION CON-
CERNING THE CLOSURE OF THE PRADO DAM
WHEREAS, approximately 2 -1/2 miles of ocean front beach
in the City of Newport Beach have been under quarantine for a
period of one hundred and seventeen days as a result of raw sewage
and partially treated sewage effluents in the Santa Ana River; and
WHEREAS, the quarantine has deprived thousands of
citizens in the County of Orange and other nearby counties of the
use of this valuable recreational asset; and
WHEREAS, the continued quarantine of the beach would
cause additional crowding of other nearby and over - burdened
beaches; and
WHEREAS, the quarantine has already had an adverse
economic impact on merchants, realtors and owners of summer rental
units in the City of Newport Beach; and
WHEREAS, the quarantine can only be lifted upon the
cessation of the flow of the Santa Ana River to the ocean; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles District of the U, S. Corps
of Engineers has issued a permit to the Orange County Water
District to immediately close the ungated opening in the Prado Dam,
which will result in termination of the quarantine; and
WHEREAS, the issuance of the permit is contingent upon
obtaining, prior to August 15, 1969, mutually agreeable criteria
regulating the operation of the Dam; and
WHEREAS, a re- opening of the Dam, once closed, will
again subject
the
West Newport beaches
to quarantine, with the
resultant loss
of
a prime recreational
facility in the midst of
a recreation season, and will impose additional economic hardships
upon the merchants and residents of the City of Newport Beach;
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NOW, EFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of N w Beach that:
The City of Newport Beach considers it essential that
the Los Angels District of the U. S. Corps of Engineers and the
Orange County Water District develop mutually agreeable criteria
regulating th operation of Prado Dam, at the earliest possible
moment, in or er to preclude the possibility of a premature opening
of the Dam an the re- imposition of a quarantine on the West
Newport beach s.
this 26th day of May, 1969.
ATTEST:
C y er
C RTIFIED AS T E IOINAL
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY O EWPOflT BRACH
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