DRA's Policy Position
DRA supports the goals of the removal of the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River but requested that the CPUC prevent Cal Am from charging its Monterey Peninsula customers for that project due to the company's mismanagement of the dam.
In Testimony filed in May 2011, DRA argued that Cal Am shareholders – not customers – should foot the hefty bill due to the company’s imprudent handling of the sediment build-up behind the dam and failure to collect depreciation funds sufficient to cover the dam’s removal.
In response to the CPUC’s June 2012 Final Decision, DRA requested a rehearing due to the legal error in the Decision asserting that the CPUC wrongly found that Cal Am should earn a profit on an asset that no longer exists – and land that Cal Am will no longer own.