RIVERSIDE – Riverside County supervisors this week authorized the Department of Environmental Health to proceed with arranging for two local water agencies to service customers of a utility that, officials say, has failed to supply safe drinking water.
Supervisor Kevin Jeffries introduced the proposal, under which the Perris-based Eastern Municipal Water District and the Lake Elsinore-based Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District would control water delivery to 140 homes between Menifee and Wildomar that are currently served by the privately held County Water Company.
“This business operation has been providing contaminated drinking water to these poor neighborhoods for a number of years,” Jeffries said during Tuesday’s supervisors’ meeting.
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