“There wasn’t much interest. Nobody who might benefit is interested — as soon as it rains, we don’t need it. And that’s been our water policy for the last 40 years.”
Supervisor John Pinches was referring to the County’s shelved plans to develop Scout Lake in Willits as a supplementary water supply for the perennially thirsty North County town.
But Pinches may as well have been describing all of inland Mendocino County’s water policy — let’s pretend.
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