The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District voted Monday to ask the State Water Resources Control Board to relax parts of a long-standing cease-and-desist order that restricts how much water can be drawn from the Carmel River. The order dates to 2009, when state regulators found California American Water (Cal-Am) was over-pumping the river, triggering strict caps that have shaped development and conservation on the Peninsula for years. … General Manager David Stoldt told the board that, thanks to aggressive conservation and new supply from projects like Pure Water Monterey, the Peninsula currently has enough water to meet existing demand.

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