Community forum on Mendocino water scarcity brings out a crowd

MENDOCINO CO., 12/7/24 – Presenting to a packed house on Tuesday night, consultants hired by the Mendocino City Community Services District, overseers of the coastal community’s water, said that the town is facing a water deficit that cannot be met by existing water sources.  

Adam Rausch, a senior resource engineer with the consulting firm GHD, said that less than half of Mendocino’s “Maximum Day Demand” of 534,000 gallons – meaning 85 gallons per day per person – could be met by current supplies. In fact, supplies would not even meet an “Average Day Demand” of 356,000 gallons per day, the study found.