Cabrillo Estates Wastewater

 Yes, it has been a while! I have been lazy! The next LOCSD meeting to be held on July 11 had an interesting item on the Consent Agenda regarding Cabrillo Estates!

"Approve a Letter of Support for Cabrillo Estates Property Owner’s Association Grant Application to the Rose Foundation for Funding of a Preliminary Engineering Report to Connect to the Los Osos Wastewater Project [Recommend approval of the letter of support]"

There have been discussions on hooking up to the sewer, as there has been a serious flap from S & T Mutual Water Company and their remaining well becoming polluted - presumably from Cabrillo's septic tanks!

Here is a link to the LOCSD agenda:

https://www.losososcsd.org/files/3e91742e2/07.11.2024+LOCSD+Board+Meeting+Agenda.pdf

Just as an added bit of interest - the S & T Mutual Water Company did NOT support funding a Los Osos Sustainability Group* Lawsuit:

https://www.st-water.com/index_htm_files/MeetingMinutes14Dec2023.pdf 

* Remember them? LOSG tried to stop the sewer project at the Coastal Commission via a De Novo Hearing:

https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2012/6/F15a-6-2012.pdf

Supes Authorize $ For New WWTF Equipment!

 "San Luis Obispo County Supervisors approved a contract to install some new equipment at the Los Osos Wastewater Treatment Plant; gizmos designed to better control the pressure inside the plant’s discharge lines and extend their useful lives."

Read all about it here in the Estero Bay News! 

https://esterobaynews.com/news/new-regulators-slated-at-los-osos-treatment-plant/

(I am a fangirl of Neil Farrell who has written another super article!)

Sewer Blog Discovery! "The Culture Of What We Flush!"

How did I not know about this? I was noodling around looking for reference items for my sewer book that I am slowly plodding along on, and in googling for the habitat of this moth (yes, the moth is sewer related) ------

Psychoda alternata

Photo Credit: Victor Engel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113604248

(and I am adding this, which may be expanded on the website for more info, as I found it interesting)

-------- I found this: https://flushitblog.wordpress.com/ !!!!!!!!!!

Here is a whole, new, wonderful world of sewers! I, and I hope you - my one reader (are you still there?) will take a look and enjoy the many, fascinating postings here!

I tried to find out something about the author, but probably on purpose, and I do understand why (how many of us write about this instead of the latest TikTok phenom I wonder....), I only found this:

About me:  I am the current chair of the Environmental Protection Technology program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.  For my PhD I looked at how pollutants and nutrients from fertilizers and manure traveled through farm soils with tile drainage.  Well, one thing led to another.

Yes, I surely get that "one thing led to another" thing...

Cyber Sewer News From The Feds!

I was shocked to find this posting today from 

Municipal Sewer & Water Magazine!

"Federal Agencies Release Cyber Incident Response Guide for Water/Wastewater Systems"

But then I realized that a dinky outpost like our sewer (and our three dinky water companies) probably would not be the most likely places to waste attack resources and I felt better.

Well, one can read all about it here:

https://www.mswmag.com/online_exclusives/2024/01/federal-agencies-release-cyber-incident-response-guide-for-water-wastewater-systems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20more&utm_campaign=MSW240125

The four stages of the incident response lifecycle are:

* Preparation

* Detection and analysis   

* Containment, eradication and recovery 

* Post-incident activities

The government website to get the detailed scoop is here:

https://www.cisa.gov/water

Los Osos Sewer Makes TPO Magazine!

https://www.tpomag.com/online_exclusives/2024/01/community-treatment-combats-saltwater-intrusion-and-recharges-aquifer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20on&utm_campaign=TPO240115 

Read about it, and note the photo of the leach field piping - I photo that I have never seen!

"In this case study from Los Osos, California, a decentralized solution from Delta Treatment Systems addresses saltwater intrusion while facilitating aquifer recharge."

This image above came from a 2016 report you can only download here (it does not go to a page):

https://downloads.regulations.gov/FWS-R8-ES-2019-0025-0004/attachment_7.pdf

I nabbed this image below from Google Earth, which is flipped from the image above:

Happy reading!

Snow From Sewage!

 Read about what is happening in Montana! Who knew!?

https://snowbrains.com/montanas-first-recycled-snowmaking-effort-launches-at-exclusive-yellowstone-club/

Spokane's Fun Sewer Video!

Have a look at the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility in the City of Spokane, Washington! 

https://my.spokanecity.org/news/stories/2023/12/21/a-360-degree-tour-of-the-wastewater-treatment-plant/

Our plant is dinky compared to this plant for an obvious reason: Los Osos population - 14,465; Spokane population - 228,989. 

And maybe I am prejudiced, but I think our plant is a lot cooler! Have you visited our plant's page lately? If not, here you go:

https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Committees-Programs/Los-Osos-Wastewater-System.aspx

I hope some enterprising person will do a video of ours someday....