Plans are moving forward in Los Osos to secure water for the town's future, which currently depends on groundwater.

“We’re highly vulnerable. If there is any type of interruption in supply, like power outages, earthquakes, anything like that, we have no other source,” said Ron Munds, Los Osos CSD general manager.

To bring in more water, a 2.5-mile-long Water Resiliency Intertie Pipeline project is in the works after a design contract was recently approved for $854,000. It would run along South Bay Boulevard to Highway 1.

“And then we are going to be looking at two options on how to get past Highway 1 to the actual state water pipeline,” Munds said.

The project would connect all three area water purveyors: the Los Osos CSD, S&T Mutual, and Golden State Water.

“We will be able to wheel

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