Orange County Sewage Treatment

hundreds of people turned out to witness the vote including a large contingent of braun's den blonde surfers in hawaiian shirts among them was former world surfing champion sean thompson and there's a consequence in their own analysis and civilians to be a close and the teachers in huntington beach have a huge impact on the city of industry it's a billion dollar industry it instantly of sixteen states are meeting speaking before the board of directors julie fuentes of the orange county business council said her members support clean water but argued that advanced treatment of sewage isn't the answer to the beach pollution problem throughout the night advocates of renewing the weight or maintain their

urban runoff not sewage disposal is the culprit behind the county's many beach closures a number of studies of the issue have been inconclusive or sometimes contradictory but environmentalists are convinced that the sewage plume is likely to be at least partly responsible for high bacteria counts on local beaches waiter proponent and knowledge that environmentalists had been very successful in mobilizing public opinion like other elected officials on the sanitation board city councilman roy moore of bray air had been inundated with comments from concerned residents dr paul earle dr while

nine hours and good humored tone in the room drew tense when the sanitation district staff raise the prospect that without the waiver the county might be fined by the epa during the seven to ten years it would take to start at the new treatment process opponents of the waiver denounced this as a gambit to derail the vote there were sharp disagreement over how much the treatment upgrade would cost some waiter proponents warned that increased cost could lead to layoffs or drive businesses added the counting on our formula here county sanitation district is based upon businesses board member rnc councilman norman i can run businesses pay most of the rate disneyland is going from three hundred thousand dollars a year no no quarter million dollars a year not spray form jams and jellies would be going two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars a year to forty thousand dollars and single family homes were going up at least fifty dollars to seventy five dollars weaver opponent said the cost to residents wouldn't be that high they estimated at sixteen dollars a

year they added that orange county sewer bills are currently below the state average either hack role as an attorney with the natural resources defense council to pass although you're welcome when the roll call was taking the city's voted for a resolution against the waiver as expected they were joined by anaheim fullerton irvine ms bannister the remaining inland cities including testing breath and cypress voted against arizona no longer does

is to cap members are expected to confer with the epa to negotiate a timetable for meeting federal standards and the board will have to decide which technology to use to more fully treated sewage in the future for kpcc news i'm elsa set sail