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Category Archives: Safety
Water quality alert
RESA received the following information from SJWC explaining the upcoming water taste and smell that we may encounter in the next few days.
“Last night San Jose Water’s Montevina Water Treatment Plant suffered a leak, resulting in flooding that submerged pumps critical to operations. As a result, the plant had to be shut down. The water quality served to your area was not compromised during this event. At this time, we do not know how long Montevina will remain offline. We are assessing the damage and will provide an update once information is available.
“Today SJW will begin to supply the Mountain District with water. The area will be served by our 7-Mile Well Station, which will result in a transition from chloraminated surface water to free chlorinate groundwater. To prepare for this change, SJW is asking Mountain District system operators to begin lowering tanks in the area.
“Please note that this switch from surface water to groundwater will result in aesthetic changes to the water quality such as taste or smell. Groundwater disinfected with free chlorine has an earthier smell. Chlorine is more readily detectable in taste and smell than chloramine. Groundwater has higher hardness, meaning you may notice white deposits, scale, and spotting on dishware.”
Road edge clearing begins July 28, 2021
Our next Road Edge Hazardous Fuel Removal Project will begin on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. The Redwood Estates Services Association (RESA) Community Road Edge Easement Defensible Space Program is part of our ongoing efforts to minimize wildfire risk. This project and our Community Brush Chipping Days go toward maintaining our FireWise Community designation.
Scope of Work:
- Clear / remove / chip brush, trees, vines from approximately 11 miles of roadways within the community of Redwood Estates.
- Clear roadways to the prescribed Santa Clara County Fire Code easements to allow ingress / egress of emergency vehicles, which is defined as 10 feet on either side of the centerline of the travelled road, with a road edge clearance of 14 feet high (a 20 ft wide by 14 feet tall swath).
- Once the above project is completed, RESA will be removing several hazardous trees within our community’s roadway easements.
We understand that many of our community members utilize plants, trees, and shrubs for privacy. Please identify with a type of label any plants that you will personally trim, and we will do our best to work around them.
These projects should be completed prior to August 28, 2021. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Please feel free to contact Jeff Bates, Operations Manager, with any questions.
Pool closed Saturday, July 24, 2021
The Redwood Estates Pool will be closed Saturday, July 24, 2021, due to a scheduled PG&E power shutdown to replace the service pole that feeds power to our pool. Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health mandates that all pools be closed during power outages due to continuous filtration requirements.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Daily pool hours should be back to normal beginning Sunday, July 25.
Please feel free to contact Jeff Bates, Operations Manager, with any questions regarding this issue.
FireWise recommendations
Dear RESA Members,
As part of becoming a FireWise community, we pledged annual improvement in reducing fuel loads and maintaining a safe community. We have two requests of our community members and an announcement that you can read more about below. In brief:
- Please record your annual brush abatement efforts in this form
- Using this form, please purchase and affix minimum 4-inch reflective house numbers to your home
- Our FireWise status has been renewed for 2020!
Brush Abatement
We have an annual commitment to reduce hazardous fuels in our community, and we can see and hear the chainsaws and chippers working actively to make homes more fire safe in our area. We applaud your efforts, as they add to our ability to keep our FireWise Certification. In order for us to count that effort toward our annual FireWise commitment we need to track it, so we have built this form. We ask you to please fill it out when you do any brush abatement. You can record hours, truckloads, or dollars spent, and we just ask that you put the address where the work was done so that we can keep track. All of this data will be properly anonymized.
Reflective House Numbers
In 2019 we had a fire risk assessment performed by Battalion Chief Jonathan Black, and he identified that we could greatly help our first responders by installing reflective house numbers that are easily visible. Santa Clara County Fire requests that residents use four inch (4”) Black or Blue numbers on a White Reflective background posted at the roadside. We would like to urge each and every member to fulfill this request to purchase and display house numbers.
In addition, if you would like to purchase high quality two-sided reflective metal signs (6”x24”) as in the example above ($30-40), please fill out this form and we will charge your account and batch up the requests to save $$ on shipping.
FireWise recognized for 2020!
Due to our ongoing annual efforts to reduce hazardous fuel within our community, Redwood Estates has again been recognized as a FireWise Community in good standing. We would like to say thank you to all those residents who have worked tirelessly to maintain their properties and reduce their brush! It is due to these efforts that we are able to maintain this status.
Thank you for your time,
RESA Board of Directors