About Us
Our mission is to provide the service area with a reliable supplemental supply of regional and locally developed water in an environmentally and economically responsible manner.
Roughly three quarters of Ventura County residents use water purchased by their retail purveyors from Calleguas’s distribution system. Some purveyors have wells and blend water from Calleguas with groundwater. Others rely exclusively on Calleguas. Calleguas does not deliver water directly to consumers. Most questions about water quality or service changes are best answered by the local retail purveyor.
Calleguas’s primary role is importing and distributing water from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which is mainly water from the State Water Project. To increase reliability, Calleguas also stores imported water locally for when it is needed and has interconnections with other local water agencies.
PATH OF IMPORTED WATER
to the Calleguas Service Area
Governance
Calleguas is an independent special district governed by a five-member elected Board of Directors. Officers of the Board include the President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The Board appoints the General Manager and employs the Auditor and District Counsel.
Management
Calleguas’s Leadership Team includes the General Manager, Deputy General Manager, Executive Strategist, Clerk of the Board, and the Managers of External Affairs, Information Technology, Water Resources, Operations and Maintenance, Engineering, Human Resources and Risk Management, and Finance.
Member Purveyors
Calleguas provides water to 19 member purveyors, which include cities, local water agencies, County waterworks districts, investor-owned utilities, and mutual water companies. Member purveyors then deliver water directly to residents and businesses throughout southeastern Ventura County.
District History
Calleguas was formed in 1953 by local residents to develop supplemental water supplies to support a rapidly developing region. Calleguas joined Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in 1960 and began supplying southeastern Ventura County with imported water.
