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Slow Cooker Asian Tomato Beef
Provided by Campbell Soup Company
Spend just 10 minutes putting this recipe together earlier in the day, and come
home to a tender beef and broccoli dish that’s as good as a restaurant entrée.
Ingredients
• 2 cans (10 3/4 ounces each) Campbell’s
® Condensed Tomato Soup
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 pound boneless beef round steak,
cut into strips
• 6 cups broccoli florets
• 6 cups hot cooked white rice
Directions
• Step 1: Stir the soup, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic powder, black pepper and beef
in a 3 1/2-quart slow cooker.
• Step 2: Cover and cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours or until the beef is fork-tender.
• Step 3: Stir in the broccoli. Increase the heat to HIGH. Cover and cook for 15
minutes or until the broccoli is tender-crisp. Serve the beef mixture with the rice.
Recipe Tips
• Time-Saving: This recipe may also be cooked on HIGH for 4 to 5 hours. •
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Water Rates to Increase to Fund
Infrastructure Improvements
By Derrick Deane
Local residents will see a slight increase
in water rates for the foreseeable future
as California Water Service Company
representatives presented their upcoming
infrastructure plans to the Hawthorne City
Council at last Tuesday’s meeting, adding
that the fee increases are necessary in order
to pay for continued system improvements
and to offset a water cost that has held steady
since 2015.
“We operate under contract with the City
[of Hawthorne],” California Water Service
Company Operations Manager Robert
Thompson said, noting that it serves more
than 45,000 people -- with 6,400 service
connections, one water well and five service
stations for fire protection.
Thompson offered a proposed infrastructure
improvement plan to include three miles of
new water pipelines, water treatment plant
upgrades, two well rehabilitations, two
booster pump replacements and security
enhancements at facilities to protect from
hackers and terrorists.
The plan would invest an additional $7.3
million in 2021-2022 to go along with $6.2
million already invested in the city during the
past three years from 2016 to end of 2019.
“New water mains, new water booster pumps,
more reliable and smart water treatment
technology, water system safety upgrades,
storage tank maintenance just to further
harden the system so that we meet all service
metrics moving forward for our constituency,”
Thompson said of the proposed plan.
Everything costs money though and these
improvements are no different. As submitted,
the proposed plan would result in customers
seeing a 31-cent per day increase in 2020.
The number adds up to roughly nine dollars
extra each month.
“New mains provide a higher level of
water flow for our firefighter partners in
the city. They improve water pressure and
water quality by removing… aged identified
infrastructure that’s in the street,” Thompson
said. “We’re looking to improve our water
treatment plant chemical dosing process.
Right now, we’ve identified some key areas
which we think we can improve so we can
increase production at that water treatment
plant. Increased production at the plant using
groundwater directly impacts the amount of
purchase water that we buy to make sure that
we meet all of our customers’ demands. The
more we pump, the better we stand moving
forward.”
To lessen the amount of purchased water
brought into the city, Thompson noted that
one of the plans is to get a long-dormant
well back online and in production while
also rehabilitating the existing one in the
city. “Due to groundwater chemistry and
just the age of infrastructure, one of the
assets has lost production -- again impacting
the amount of purchase water that we have
to buy,” he said. “The other well has been
offline for several years and we’re looking
to get it back into the mix.”
Water production and purchase cost make
up 47 percent of the 2020 cost distribution
plan at the moment. Mayor Pro Tem Olivia
Valentine dug a little deeper into the rate
increases, which would total over $30 a
month during a three-year span.
“There are a couple of points that I’d like
to bring up. First, this is actually recognizing
the increase in purchase water cost from
January 2015,” California Rates (at California
Water Service Company) Vice President Greg
Milleman said. “The purchase water cost has
been held constant from West Basin even
though there’s been an 18 percent increase
in that [price] over the five years. Our rates
in other matters were increased in ‘15, ‘16,
and ’17, but that particularly large item was
held constant and it’s a big part of the cost
to deliver water.”
Milleman continued, “Another part of it
[the need for the increase] is in the 2015
case, that’s when we made some significant
improvements to the water treatment facility
and it was a discussion amongst the Council
and City staff that we hold back on recovering
our investment in that plant. When we invest
in a utility, over the course of that property’s
useful life, we will recover principal... that
we invested into the system and earn a return
on the net unrecovered portion that remains.
We have now reintroduced the recovery into
these rates.”
The third reason for the increase came
as a surprise to Milleman. “The third element
is surprising,” he said. “It doesn’t have
anything to do with cost, regulation, legislation,
technology – it simply has to do with
using less water. Your community has done
really well and conserved to roughly 10
percent of our consumption, but what that
affects is the fixed cost of a system that
does not vary whether people are using
water or not, such as the treatment plant. We
need treatment for that plant and that costs
money. Or a meter reader -- their salary that
costs money.”
While Hawthorne’s other major water
supplier, Golden State Water, will see an
annual increase of $82.55, Cal Water’s
See City Council, page 4
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