Sacramento grand jury: Country club hasn’t paid to water its grass for decades

Three years after a civil grand jury found a public utility was not charging a country club enough for water, the utility is still doing so, a new report found.

The Rancho Murieta Community Services District has now been giving discounted reclaimed water to irrigate the Rancho Murieta Country Club golf courses for 38 years, a Sacramento County grand jury report released Wednesday found.

The district is a public utility that provides water and sewer services to about 6,000 residents and two golf courses, all located in a rural, gated community about 27 miles east of downtown Sacramento. The district is governed by a five-member board of directors, and each director is elected to staggered four-year terms…

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