Monarch Grove Update!

The Planning Commission held their meeting on Thursday, October 29, 2015 regarding Monarch Grove. The Commission voted unanimously "yes" to forward the proposal to the Board of Supervisors for their approval to include Monarch Grove in the Los Osos Urban Reserve Line. If approved, and all is good with the Coastal Commission (updating the LCP), Monarch Grove residents can discontinue the use of their package sewer plant and hook up to the Prohibition Zone's sewer. They already have their pipes in the ground and will now need to do an inspection of the lines so the County will take them. Faulty lines won't cut it as Bayridge found out.

New!! Financial Aid Meeting Info on County Site!

November 5, 2015: San Luis Obispo County and Peoples’ Self-Help Housing invite you to attend an informational meeting to be held Thursday, November 5, at 6 p.m. at South Bay Community Center, 2180 Palisades Avenue, Los Osos CA 93412 to get more information about financial aid.

Planning Commission Thursday - Monarch Grove Hook-Up

Tomorrow the Plannning Commission will have a hearing on whether or not to recommend to the Board of Supervisors to vote to include Monarch Grove into the urban reserve line of Los Osos. Right now it is not eligible to hook up to the sewer the rest of us are getting because they are outside of "the line."

Right now, they have their own mini wastewater treatment plant (a "package plant") to service the 83 lots in the subdivision.

Here is the link to the Planning Commission documents:
http://agenda.slocounty.ca.gov/agenda/sanluisobispo/Proposal.html?select=5244

Here is what the Monarch Grove Homeowners Association had to say in 2007:
http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/BOS+Related+Items/Letter+Monarch+HOA+BOS+8-28-07.pdf

Here is what was presented at the LOCSD meeting July 28, 2015 regarding Monarch Grove:
http://www.losososcsd.org/Library/2015%20Agenda%20Packets/08.06.15/Agenda%20Item%2012B%20Approve%20Reimbursement%20Agreement%20btwn%20LOCSD%20and%20Monarch%20HOA.pdf

Johnny, the Running Toilet Mascot

Los Osos is behind the times! Why didn't Los Osos, whose fame—(regrettably) rests in part on sewage, think of this—especially since we are in a terrible drought! Wasting water is considered tantamount to a federal crime in these parts! NO toilets should be running in this town, except after having been employed for their specific purpose, and even then, only under the "If it's yellow, it's mellow....." rule! Granted, Raleigh, North Carolina is a CITY of 431,746 souls, established in 1788, so they do have a bit of heft and age on us, but—!—they are not famous for sewage! (Eventually we won't be either, once the sewer is in and the whiners give up their favorite sport. However, Hell is probably experiencing climate change as well, as I think even a slight cooling is unlikely to happen, ever. In other words, have no hope for the whiners to shut it down........but I can dream!)

So, let's enjoy this fantastic creature, representing a fixture sometimes referred to as "the throne," and look at what Johnny the Running Toilet is doing and what we can learn from him (he is so cute I just want to pinch his little lid):

https://www.raleighnc.gov/home/content/PubUtilAdmin/Articles/MascotsIntro.html

https://www.facebook.com/Johnny-The-Running-Toilet-784307731610638/

Poop Fairy Fraud Exposed!

(Click the image to see the larger size where you can really see the clothespin on the fairy's nose!)

This will be a non-sewer topic today—on a product, that if of human origin, we would require its collection.....but we don't.....as it is dog poop. Too much of it sits around in parks—like the Elfin Forest—and in front yards and parkways around town.

I think some people in Los Osos are believers—that the existence of Poop Fairies is real, gauging by the amount of poop left out in the open, as if a scooper team would fly by in the night and remove the offending particles, and the sun would rise and the streets would shine with cleanliness and safe walking areas. (Actually, the mind set is not too different than the mind set of the people who were true believers in Magic Sand, back in the Sewer War days, "We don't need no stinkin' sewer, we have Magic Sand!" Who can forget our Magic Sand?!)

Well, a couple of counties in different states have posted that these beings DO NOT actually exist, with cute graphics proving so, and I think that these places must be inhabited by optimistic folks who harbor a warm and fuzzy feeling about their fellow beings and their abilities toward responsible dog product pick-up. 

Have a look, and be sure to play the videos on the first of the two links below.

http://www.bernco.gov/public-works/poop-fairy.aspx

http://jeffco.us/sheriff/animal-control/poop-fairy/

Septics! Decommission & Reuse Plan

0. Off the Board of Supervisors Agenda:
   
   Tuesday, October 20, 2015
   Board Business:
   
   
1. 20. Presentation of a project update and Septic System Decommissioning and Reuse Plan for the Los Osos Wastewater Project. District 2. 
   
   
   I will post a link the relevant documents when they are available.
   

http://agenda.slocounty.ca.gov/agenda/sanluisobispo/Proposal.html;jsessionid=EF4356F8545612AC36B3D99A3F42B1F4?select=5211

Tillman Water Reclamation Plant

Water Online recently posted the tech side of the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the San Fernando Valley in an online article! I wrote a piece on this some years back which you can find at this link: Gamelan Concert

Read the latest here and find out more about bar screens vs. climber screens than you ever imagined you would—unless of course you are a wastewater professional.

http://www.wateronline.com/doc/years-of-tranquility-at-water-reclamations-plant-and-japanese-garden-courtesy-of-headworks-bar-screens-0001?sectionCode=TOC&templateCode=Single&user=2124006&source=nl:44029&utm_source=et_10759433&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WOL_2015-10-08&utm_term=8B6151B5-326C-4D25-A47F-7FA24BE85D17&utm_content=8%2bYears%2bOf%2bTranquility%2bAt%2bWater%2bReclamation%2bPlant%2bAnd%2bJapanese%2bGarden

Don't Pee On Me!

San Francisco has had an ongoing problem with public urination. Well, just one gender is responsible for this problem, but I will let it go un-named. Anyway, the city realized it had to take this problem seriously when a three-story tall light post fell over due to corrosion. Sure, it was only one of the 25,000 that the city has, and no one was killed, the car it flattened was unoccupied, but there could be more about to go, right? (Granted, in this case, some of this corrosion may have been due to the urinary work of dogs—also of that same, un-named gender.) To fix the problem, San Francisco contacted a company in Florida that makes a specialized type of paint. It repels liquids! So the pee splashed back onto the shoes and pant legs of the pee-er! I'm not sure how this works with dogs....

This idea was first used in Germany, specifically Hamburg's St. Pauli quarter, where a LOT of late night beer drinkers were too blitzed to find a bathroom.

The program in San Francisco has been a great success! The calls to Public Works for steam cleaning has gone down 17% since last year. So far eight walls have been painted with eight more to be done next week. The cost (a few hundred dollars) is far less than the $80 an hour it costs to steam clean the walls.

Take a look at the video on the product Ultra-Ever Dry, especially the mud test at the end! Sadly, but wisely I suppose, there is no actual pee demo on the video so use your imagination as to how this actually works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPM8OR6W6WE

Sewer Update! August 2015!

Read all about it off of this ink and note the photos:
http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/PM+Monthly+Update+Aug2015.pdf

We are in the final six month countdown to the finish, AND on schedule!