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Safeguarding the Water Supply in Marin County, California

Safeguarding the Water Supply in Marin County, California

Safeguarding the Water Supply in Marin County, California A Singular Focus on Protecting Water Systems About Marin Municipal Water District, California Dewey Sorensen joined Marin Municipal Water District in 2011 as Supervisor, Reclamation and Backflow. Together, he and his team of two are responsible for delivering on the organization’s mandate of “providing high-quality drinking water to 190,800 customers in central and southern Marin County.” Just north of San Francisco, that 147 square miles of geography includes 10 towns and cities as well as unincorporated communities. For Sorensen and his team, that means focusing on cross-connection control — which he defines simply as “anytime a water line is connected to something you don’t want to drink.” It also means preventing b

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