More than $6 million in long-awaited funds are coming to help bring clean drinking water to the Salinas Valley town of San Lucas, which has gone without for more than a decade. The incoming funds are a combination of state and federal grants earmarked for the construction of a new water treatment facility. On Tuesday, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the funding and authorized the Director of Public Works, Facilities and Parks to execute a 10-year, retroactive memorandum of understanding from 2025 to 2035 with the San Lucas County Water District to work together on the project. The town of roughly 325 people, just south of King City, has faced water quality issues since at least 2006 from pollution by nitrates and other compounds.

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