New Sewage Plant Raises Question: Will Phase 2 Connect?
Written by 991KBU on October 8, 2018
The downtown Malibu sewer was dedicated last Friday.
Water agencies that were badmouthing Malibu … on the brink of suing Malibu 10 years ago … were here … smiles all around.
Mark Gold … former president of Heal The Bay … was one of the clean water advocates.
He and city council member Laura Rosenthal were there … to officially bury the hatchet.
NEWSCART 77852 GOLD ROSENTHAL :21 QQQ: MOVE FORWARD ON THIS.
GOLD: “All these years of heated discussion and trying to figure out the right path forward, and it’s just … it’s great to be here today.
REPORTER: “Laura, how did we move off the dime on this, we were fighting this guy 20 years ago???”
ROSENTHAL: “we were fighting him 20 years ago 10 years ago eight years ago when I first got on council.
“But we realized we needed to move forward on this.”
Not mentioned at all during the ceremony was the lingering controversy over whether homes in the Civic Center area will be required to hook into the new sewer.
The state water board has ordered that houses stop using septic tanks by 2022.
That’s essentially an order that they connect to the sewer.
But some homeowners say their septic tanks are working just fine … and disagree with the water boards contention that untreated sewage coming out of their septic tanks are increasing the amount of fertilizer for harmful bacteria in the Malibu Lagoon area and that Surfrider beach.
That issue may go back before the state water board …
