Harvey D. Williamson

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  Cabazon Water District Law Enforcement & Security... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/6/2006    Last Visited: 4/6/2006  

  Pictured is Dave Parker, F.A.E., the firemen and women of Cabazon Station #24 and Fire Dog Caliber with Cabazon Water District Police Department Mounted Patrol 'PD' an American Quarter Horse, Calvin Louie, CWD General Manager, Harvey Williamson, CWD Board President, and CWD Board Vice President R.D. Cash.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Desert-Pass - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/16/2004    Last Visited: 6/16/2004  

  "We want to get a feel about what the people want," said board President Harvey Williamson.
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  Williamson said there is plenty of money for city services in Cabazon if Riverside County is willing to share some sales-tax revenue from the outlet mall.Cabazon should incorporate before a looming building boom hits the area, Williamson said.
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  Williamson said water district attorneys believe the agency can be involved in the cityhood issue.
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  Williamson sparked the current debate by sending out an open letter to residents.Only incorporation can prevent the Morongo tribe from gobbling up Cabazon, he wrote.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Desert-Pass - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/8/2004    Last Visited: 6/8/2004  

  Water board President Harvey Williamson sees a bright future.
  
  After years of hearing little from developers, one builder offered to pay for a cityhood study.
  
  Williamson turned him down, preferring to keep things at arm's length as Cabazon weighs becoming a city once again.The developer planned about 1,500 homes in the foothills behind the current Casino Morongo.
  
  "If we become a city, we will look at the project," Williamson said."I don't want to make promises to anybody."
  
  And cityhood could be better the second time around, he said.
  
  "It's the same community, but we're more mature," Williamson said.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Elections - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 11/9/2005  

  Incumbent R.D. Cash and challengers Kenneth L. Snow and Naime Sarraf-Merida edged out board president Harvey Williamson and challenger Jack Charles Pryor in Tuesday's race for three seats on the Cabazon Water District board of directors.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Inland News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/13/2005    Last Visited: 1/14/2005  

  CABAZON - Harvey Williamson, water board president in this tiny outpost along the freeway, watches the district's big wells drop a foot a month.
  
  The cause for the decline is a mystery.He says it coincides with the opening about two years ago of an Arrowhead bottling plant south of Interstate 10 between Palm Springs and Banning.Spring water pumped from the ground gets exported from the San Gorgonio Pass and sold throughout the western United States.
  
  "My gut feeling is they're the cause of it, but we don't know that," Williamson says about the dropping wells.
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  A bottling plant seemed like a good deal at first, Williamson said.
  
  In 2001, the Cabazon Water District sold water rights for two natural streams for $2.9 million to the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.
  
  Williamson said the tribe's subsequent bottled-water deal with Arrowhead benefited everyone.
  
  Water customers got lower bills; the tribe diversified its economic empire.The Arrowhead plant sits on the Morongo Reservation.
  
  But then well levels dropped.
  
  Over the last two years, two main wells located a couple of miles from the bottling plant each dropped about 24 feet, Williamson said.
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  "We're figuring the cost right now," Williamson says.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/26/2004    Last Visited: 9/26/2004  

  "This water thing is a regional problem," Harvey Williamson, president of the Cabazon County Water District, said by phone.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Pass-Oak Valley - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/14/2006    Last Visited: 1/14/2006  

  Former water board President Harvey Williamson said rights were sold because the spring water wasn't easily accessible and turning it into drinking water required a $3 million filtration plant.
  
  Money from the water-rights sale earned interest and helped cut water rates by 40 percent, Williamson said.He supports the current rate increase, calling it "reasonable."

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Pass-Oak Valley - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/9/2005    Last Visited: 11/10/2005  

  Board president Harvey Williamson, first appointed in 1997, finished last.He now plans to concentrate on his youth ministry and on working with a group in Orange County on a patent he holds for a collision-avoidance system for cars.
  
  He will continue living in Cabazon.
  
  Much of the campaigning in the race involved open letters sent to voters.
  
  Challengers Pryor and Snow accused Williamson of having "autocratic control" of the board and mismanaging the district's finances.
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  Williamson denied his challengers' accusations.Water rates remain low, yearly audits show district finances are sound, and grant money will soon help upgrade Cabazon's water system, he said.

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Pass-Oak Valley - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/19/2005    Last Visited: 10/19/2005  

  Water board president Harvey Williamson is accusing a Beverly Hills developer-turned-Cabazon-resident of running to further his own interests.
  
  Candidate Jack Charles Pryor denies the accusation.He says the water district should be a "catalyst" for jump-starting growth in Cabazon.
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  Williamson opposes a wastewater-treatment facility at Carmen Meadows.
  
  He says it's less than a block from Cabazon Elementary School.
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  Williamson says the developer should run a line a few miles away to a future wastewater treatment plant planned by Cabazon Water.
  
  Riverside County is processing a development proposal from Pryor's company, Diversified Product Ind. Ltd.Beverly Hills.
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  HARVEY DAVID WILLIAMSON

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  PE.com | Inland Southern California | Pass-Oak Valley - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/7/2005    Last Visited: 7/7/2005  

  Harvey Williamson, president of the Cabazon Water District governing board, said businesses north of Interstate 10 in the outlets and adjacent residential neighborhood were without water nearly 24 hours after a motor in one of the district's three pumps shorted out.Service was fully restored about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday.
  
  "We had to bring in experts because it's very dangerous troubleshooting it and we didn't want to screw it up," he said.
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  Williamson said it was not a matter of simply replacing the motor and turning it on.When a pump goes out, he explained, water drains out of the line and it must be recharged before the new motor can be activated.
  
  "Otherwise, you'll burn up the new motor," he said.
  
  Cabazon Water District provides nearly 1 million gallons of water a day to about 1,800 customers.The Cabazon Outlets get their water via the district's western pump and storage tank.The district has a second pump and storage facility to the east, but they are below the outlets' elevation, making gravity flow impossible.A third pump serves the southern portion of the district.
  
  Williamson said the western pump, which is 10 years old, has performed flawlessly until now.He estimated the repair job to cost $10,000.

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