You can turn on your tap anytime, day or night, and plenty of high quality water will flow---virtually without fail. This reliability is due to careful long term planning, continuous maintenance and good management.

Our planning horizon is not just a few months or years. We must look ahead 20 or more years into the future to insure we are prepared for whatever the future may bring.

Three key areas of planning are: 1) water supply; 2) water quality; and 3) water distribution to our customers. These pages provide more details on the District's water distribution plans and activities.

Major Project to Replace Sycamore Canyon Road Water Main Completed

As part of an ongoing capital improvement program, Montecito Water District replaced an aging 1923 water main in Sycamore Canyon Road between Barker Pass Road and Eucalyptus Hill Road.  It is a critical line that runs between the pipeline from Lake Cachuma, a major pump station and a reservoir above East Mountain Drive that stores 4.3 million gallons of water.

The Sycamore Canyon construction project was recently completed and involved replacing about 2,400 feet of new ductile iron pipe, the installation of 3 new fire hydrants, and replacing 25 water service lines to customer meters.

The ongoing program of replacing and enlarging aging facilities has yielded many benefits: saving thousands of dollars in annual maintenance costs, decreasing leaks of precious water, improving pressure for daily use, and increasing water flow for firefighting.

Major pipeline replacement along Sycamore Canyon Road between Barker Pass Road and Eucalyptus Hill Road.

Among the many water system improvements in recent years are additional backup generators, like the one shown above, that improve reliability during power outages caused by fires and other emergencies.

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