The Poway City Council unanimously approved a $441,000 payment to the city of San Diego on Tuesday to resolve a years-long billing dispute and establish an amended water rights agreement with the city. The payment retroactively replaces water charges made by San Diego to Poway for the calendar years 2017 to 2025, according to a Poway staff report. The water agreement between the two cities, which dates back to 1968, was intended to resolve a protest related to San Diego’s prior downstream water rights at Hodges Dam and to secure permits needed to build the Poway Dam in 1971.

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