Final Evacuation—Bayridge Estates Septic Tanks!

Here is the latest info on the Bayridge septic tanks, that have been awaiting their emptying for quite some time. Our wonderful Jose Acosta, our Utilities Systems Manager, has saved the District's bacon (once again)—although I hesitate to put my treasured culinary word "bacon" in a paragraph about.......politely speaking, "waste product."

Have a look about the process and the price on getting these tanks emptied:
https://www.losososcsd.org/files/68b62c540/Agenda+Item+12D+Discussion+Regarding+Bayridge+Estates+Septic+Tanks+Decommissioning+Process.pdf

This will be discussed at the next LOCSD meeting, Thursday, February 7 in the Open Session part of the meeting which begins at 7:00 p.m. in the District Office, 2122 9th Street Suite 106. Hope to see you all there!! (All two of you locals that read this thing that is.....)

Pardon my long absence, I have been away and otherwise occupied! Some of you have seen me riding a camel on my Facebook page (which was not Photoshopped). But more on that later. 

Have Sludge, Will Travel!

I reported this past October on the sorry and costly state of Bayridge septic tank's dead sludge. Ten tanks need to have their expired (read: dead, dead, dead) sludge sucked up and carted off. For those inclined to read about that, follow the link below. The County has not come after the LOCSD waiving legal papers for non-compliance on emptying those tanks yet, but who like waiting around for that (————) to drop? They are not going to let those poop piles fall between the cracks.
 https://losewersaga.blogspot.com/2018/10/bayridges-stale-sludge.html

Thanks to the persistence of the LOCSD's Utilities Manager Jose Acosta and General Manager Renee Osborne, an excellent and wayyyyy cheaper solution has been found! Rather than the $110,000 mentioned at the last episode, a company called appropriately, East Bay MUD has come to the rescue. Bayridge is now looking at around $20,000, give or take, and they already have $50,000 in their reserves!

There is a bit of Wiki-info on EBMUD, aside from the link above—they look like a pretty large operation; this Bayridge stuff will be but a tiny drop in the night soil bucket for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District