First Flush This Week At Civic Center Sewage Plant
Written by 991KBU on April 3, 2018
The first flush into a centralized sewer system in Malibu history is about to go down.
Actually … it will be a test flow …. but it looks like the City of Malibu is about to do something that a lot of people said would never happen.
The 60 million dollar plus Malibu Civic Center Wastewater is starting tests this week… and getting ready to connect the first toilets and sewer lines to the treatment center.
The project was finished several months ahead of schedule and was under budget.
Now .. the big question … will homeowners in the Phase Two area pay to plug in to the sewer plant.
Under a settlement with the state Water Board … Malibu was required to have a central sewer plant running by September of this year.
The first phase … was for all the existing commercial property at the Civc Center area.
That’s nearing completion.
And that second phase … homes and condos in the
Civic Center area … and Serra Estates.
It is an open question as to whether those property owners will pay to hook in … or risk sanctions from the water board for noncompliance.
The state water Board has ordered homeowners in the Serra Estates and on Malibu Colony Beach to stop using their septic tanks in a few years if they don’t connect to a sewer …
And it will be very hard to sell a house or get financing for a mortgage with a state water board penalty on the land title.
But the offshoot from the sewer plant … is the development of all that vacant land at the Civic Center is now either under way … about to occur … or likely to occur.
The biggest change in land use in 50 years in Malibu … underway … as testing begins this week at the first sewage treatment plant operated by the City of Malibu.
