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LOS ANGELES TIMES VC MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994 B3 T5 MMHMNWHMBWMHMffMIWWIIBHnBI (ctoiu.wn nTi -'-w jHnpf absentee voters this week that featured a picture of illegal immigrants with the words: "This isn't This is an invasion. And you're paying for it." Montgomery denied that he was trying to exploit the immigration issue to his benefit, saying he believed there are things the county can do to reduce the cost of illegal immigration. The flyer outlines Montgomery's five-point plan to "Stop the Illegal Alien Rip-Off" in the county, including turning over illegal immigrants to federal authorities. The plan also calls for support of Proposition 187, the statewide ballot initiative that would bar most government services to illegal immigrants and their children. "He's trying to ride the coattails of Proposition 187," said Perez, an outspoken critic of the measure, which statewide polls show voters favor 2 to 1.

"It's not a campaign issue. People are going to see that it's purely, a political maneuver." Mikels, who has not taken a public stand on Proposition 187, said she was pleased to have Perez's support. She said she also believes Montgomery is trying to appeal to voters by bringing the immigration issue into the county race. "It's typical desperation politics," she said. -CARLOS V.LOZANO COUNTYW.DE Scientists to Use Dye to Track River Flow Government scientists will pour fluorescent dye into the Santa Clara River on Tuesday in an experiment designed to reveal the river's inner workings.

The dye will be traced downstream from Piru Creek, providing water officials with information that will eventually help them schedule releases from the Santa Felicia Dam, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Erife Reichard said. "We want to find but what happens to water in the Where does it infiltrate the ground? Where does ground water enter the river?" Reichard said. Reichard said the test will involve a few gallons of the dye, which will appear red when poured into the river but will quickly become invisible to everything but scientific instruments. The two- to three-day test will be harmless to the environment, officials said.

The river water is sold to residential and business customers by the United Water Conservation District. IRAE. STOLL SATICOY Old Gravel Pit Will Become Reservoir A Santa Paula-based water district is transforming an abandoned gravel mining pit into a reservoir, creating water storage that will help stem the flow of seawater into fresh underground water basins. The United Water Conservation District, which monitors pumping and replenishes underground water supplies for much of the county, plans to have the new reservoir in operation by mid-February, said Frederick J. Gientke, United's general manager.

The conversion of what once was CalMat Noble Pit will help restore water levels in the upper Oxnard Aquifer for the first five years. After that, its water supply will be used to reduce pumping from the valuable Fox Canyon Aquifer beneath the Oxnard Plain. Fox Canyon, the largest underground water basin in the county, has been overdrawn for the last 50 years by growers and cities that have pumped more out each year than rainwater can replenish. That has allowed seawater to gradually penetrate the aquifer. The same is true for the shallower upper Oxnard Aquifer, but United has already launched projects to help replenish its supply.

"For the first time, we're able to directly attack the overdraft in the Fox Canyon," Gientke said. "With the Freeman Diversion and the Saticoy and El Rio spreading grounds, only about 15 of the water went into the lower aquifer." United purchased the 144-acre pit from the Saticoy-based CalMat Co. for $2 million and will spend another $2.5 million grading and preparing the pit and building pipelines. The reservoir, called the Fox Canyon Seawater Intrusion Abatement Program, will store up to 3,000 acre-feet of water per year. Today's Area Sunday forecast Coastal 56 50 Inland Coastal 61 50 Conejo Valley NA 50 OJal Valley NA 50 Slml Valley NA 50 FlllmorePlru 58 50 Congressman Elton Gallegly speaks at The Freeman Dam on the Santa Clara River at Saticoy now diverts water during heavy flows after storms.

That water is funneled into nearby settling ponds, which allow water to sink down into the ground and percolate into the aquifers below. j' Excess water that the settling ponds cannot handle will be shunted off td the Noble Pit. For the first several years, the water will be allowed to percolate into the shallow water basins. But once the pond seals itself off with silt in four or five years, the district will build a small pumping plant and ship the water via existing pipeline to growers on the Oxnard Plain. In turn, those growers will decrease the amount of water they pump from the Fox Canyon Aquifer, The water will cost about $110 an acre-foot, which is enough water to supply two families for one year.

Once the project is paid off in 20 years, the will cost drop to $3 per acre-foot, said United board President Dan Pinkerton. "In that time, over 60,000 acre-feet of water will have been conserved," he said; -JOANNA M. MILLER professor of philosophy of, mind and language at UC Berkeley; Samuelson Chapel, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. Searle will discuss "Cognition and Cognitive Science" at 10 a.m.

and "The Problem of Consciousness" at 8 p.m. Free. Information: 493-3235 or 495-4470. Career Talk The Oxnard College Re-Entry Center's Noon Program will present "Getting Focused, Staying Focused" from noon to 1 p.m. at the college, 4000 S.

Rose Ave. Free. Information! 986-5833. Fighting Drug Abuse Simi Valley Hospital and Health Care Services will present "Warning Signs and Air Quality Report This chart shows the ozone levels for Ventura County. Ozone is an invisible irritant that impairs breathing.

When it reaches 131 on a federal index, healthy people are advised to reduce physical activity. Pollutant Standard Index 0-50 Good 51-100 Moderate 101-199 Unhealthful 200-299 Very unhealthful 300-500 Hazardous 800 Hobson Way. The program will feature short operettas, sacred works and a range of secular and folk music. $17 adults, $15- senior adults, $7.50 children. Information: 486-2424.

The Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will offer a workshop on how homeowners can strengthen their homes against major damage from earthquakes, 7 to 9 p.m. at Hueneme High School, 500 Bard Road, Oxnard. Co-sponsored by the city of Oxnard and the Oxnard Union High School District. Free. Information: (800) 525-0321 or TDD (800)660-8005.

The Thousand Oaks Teen Center will it STEVE OSM AN Los Angelea Times groundbreaking ceremony for reservoir. MOORPARK Perez Backs Mikels After Foe's 187 Flyer Moorpark Councilman Bernardo Perez has announced that he is endorsing Ventura County supervisorial candidate Judy Mikels, saying her opponent issued a flyer he found offensive to Latinos. Perez said he was supporting Mikels, a Simi Valley councilwoman, because of her government and honesty. Perez said he had initially planned to remain neutral in the race because his Moorpark council colleague Scott Montgomery is Mikels' opponent. But Perez, the only Latino on the council, said he changed his mind because he believes Montgomery is trying to exploit the emotionally charged issue of illegal immigration to boost his candidacy for a county wide post.

Perez said immigration was a federal matter and had no place in the supervisorial race. Montgomery mailed flyers to 12,000 Symptoms of Chemical dependency In Young People," part of the Health Wise lecture series, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Aspen Outpatient Center, 2750 N. Sycamore Drive, Simi Valley. Free.

Reservations: 582-5000. The Ventura College AIDS Task Force, as part of AIDS Awareness Month, will present "A Woman's Story: Living With AIDS" at noon at the college Women's 4667 Telegraph Road. Free. Information; 654-6400. The Vienna Boys Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m.

at the Oxnard Civic Auditorium, 550 Flip JL Number Memory Extended Battery Desktop Charger mm Ik Today's Agenda THINGS TO DO OCTOBER 24 Psychology Lecture iThe 10th annual Harold Stoner Clark Lecture Series, presented by the philosophy department at Cal Lutheran University, will feature Dr. John Searle, Mills Amtrak to Begin Camarillo Service Amtrak trains running between San Diego and Santa Barbara will begin stopping at the Camarillo station on Lewis Road on Sunday. The Camarillo service will supplement Amtrak stops in Ventura, Oxnard, Moorpark and Simi Valley. Southbound trains will stop in Camarillo at 8:45 a.m., 2:40 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

seven days a week. Northbound trains will make the stops at 11 a.m., 3:25 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets range in price from $8 round trip to Moorpark to $34 round trip to San Diego. Passengers with Metrolink monthly passes can buy Amtrak tickets at a discount.

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