Our Sewage Stats!

These words below in blue are part of the Basin Management Committee report for Wednesday, August 21, 2016 (meeting to be held at 1:30 p.m. at the South Bay Community Center). Nice to see how our "products" are being put back into circulation, albeit via a circuitous and time-distant route. Think of all of the water that could have been saved if we were flushing and forgetting back in 2008! Oh well, better now than never, right?

Los Osos Wastewater Project Flow and Connection Update 

Staff plans to provide periodic updates on the status of connections and flows from the LOWWP. The following is an update on the status:

1,900 connections have been made, including neighborhood systems and mobile home parks. There are approximately 2,300 homes and businesses connected. 

Flows are approximately 200,000 gallons per day on the weekends, slightly less on weekdays. 

Effluent has been discharged to the Broderson percolation site since August 10th. It is filtered and disinfected, which meets the WDR requirements of 7mg/L total nitrogen. The County is now going through the process verification procedure with SWB Division of Drinking Water so that the effluent can be deemed Title 22 disinfected tertiary recycled water. In the last two weeks, a maximum flow of 400,000 gpd has been sent to Broderson as water is discharged from accumulated storage. 

Since the water is of sparkly-clean, Title 22 quality, I decided to color the text blue, not yellow!

You may access the full Basin Management Committee report from this link:
http://slocountywater.org/site/Water%20Resources/LosOsos/pdf/2016-09-21%20Los%20Osos%20BMC%20Agenda%20Package.pdf

On this link you will also find a tech memorandum outlining funding and financing programs available to us to do the other half of this water equation—namely, saving our used and abused drinking water supply. Somehow I hear a distant echo of the words emblazoned on signs back in 2005, "We Delay, We Pay!" And that is what we are doing now and about to do more of, the pay part I mean.