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San Luis Obispo County, CA | November 5, 2002 Election |
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1. A more reasonable wastewater plan.By Linda "Linde" OwenCandidate for Director; Los Osos Community Services District |
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Begin by moving the sewer plant to the outside of town and collect & treat effluent from our septic tanks, rather than raw sewage. Treat the water in a more efficient terciary treatment wastewater plant, to release into wetlands for storage & re-use. Septic maintenance can help create a safe way of processing our solids down to one pumping every 5-15 yrs (if we're efficient) & processing it at the sewer plant to a lower level density than sludge.It begins by getting the sewer moved outside of town. It's a good idea in every way. We've all heard endlessly that it won't smell, we won't ever realize we're playing with our dogs or children on the beautifully designed fields that sit atop the future plant, it's the most affordable location, it's a state-of-the-art design, that 2 tons of sludge production daily (forever) won't be a problem, there isn't really a higher incidence of disease near sewer plants, it will never have a spill into Sweet Springs and the Bay, it won't cost very much to begin major repairs within ten years of operation, and it will never fail. I think we all could agree that a less expensive design (above ground), energy demand (with solar & wind, etc power generation possible), and property cost (purchase cheaper/degraded grazing land for the plant and wetland/marsh collection and storage) are all worth considering. And if we changed our collection system to collecting effluent (leachfield liquids) in combination with a Septic Maintenance Program (keep the septic tanks actively doing a decent portion of the processing when operating correctly), we'd save 42 miles of roads, and a future of ever-rising costs and hazards (raw sewage leaks, spills, fines). The plant could process everyone's pumped septage (every two yrs, maybe less often) and end up with a fraction of the disposal costs of baked sewer sludge. The location has to move, there's no logical reason to put our sewer plant in the middle of Los Osos, next to the library, community center, red barn, tennis courts, and Sunnyside school. There's everything to gain by moving it east. |
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