EMWD approves new five-year lease with Quality Turf
Quality Turf Inc. leases land from the Eastern Municipal Water District, and a Feb. 15 EMWD board action gave Quality Turf a new five-year lease.Randy Record was not at the board meeting, but the other four board members all approved the new lease. The lease area encompasses 140 acres adjacent to Eastern’s San Jacinto Valley Regional Water Reclamation Facility.The land east of Warren Road, west of Sanderson Avenue, south of Ramona Expressway and north of Cottonwood Avenue is referred to as the Buena Vida property. The lease was originally approved in 2014, and the lease area at the time was 190 acres. New leases were approved in 2016 and 2018.The most recent lease was approved in July 2020 with Quality Turf paying $80 per acre annually. Eastern expects the completion of five