Raul Godinez is getting ready to raise your water rates again!
Have you enjoyed watching your water bills in Santa Ana get higher and higher? Well prepare yourself. Public Works Director Raul Godinez wants to raise your water rates again.
I spent some time the other day with a City Hall insider and got an earful about what is really going on at the Santa Ana Public Works Department, since Godinez came to town.
Like most city agencies, the Public Works Department has had to let go a lot of people. Senior operators and techs are retiring and not being replaced.
Godinez is trying to use computers to regulate water pressure at night, instead of hiring nighttime operators. The result? All those damaged water mains. What is damaging them isn’t corrosion, but rather water pressure spikes. The computers cannot adjust the pressure the way humans do. So sometimes the water pressure zooms up and some of the pipes cannot take it. Continue reading