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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Stealth Basin Update At BOS

On Tuesday, April 22, the Board of Supervisors have put the Report on the proposed revisions on the RWQCB Basin plan proposal on the agenda -- F-1, to be discussed AFTER afternoon public comment. (www.slocounty.ca.gov for further info. )

Here's your chance to add your two cents.

Also on the agenda for the morning is the Los Osos retrofit program for new homes and remodels, and etc. One of the key arguments there is the problem that no matter HOW you rearrange the deck chairs, you still can't get MORE water out of NO water. And this becomes especially acute if you keep allowing development outside the PZ.

Well, better email your comments to your supervisor and/or all the supervisors, or go down for the hearing and speak up, or forever hold your peace.
Posted by Churadogs at 7:43 AM

2 comments:

Ron said...

When Bureaucrats F-up -- A new, reality television show, starring the staffs of the RWQCB and the County of SLO:

Rhian Gulassa recenly wrote:

" I immediately went to the EPA website for AB885 to look for methods of alternative compliance and decided on a compositing toilet, as this alternative was also mentioned in CCRWQCB documents. I e-mailed Matt Thompson, prosecution staff, fully expecting to receive encouragement for this alternative. A week later he replied that the county would not allow compositing toilets in Los Osos. When I contacted the county for an explanation, they said that the Waterboard told them to say this."

and, in the staff report for the proposed revisions on the RWQCB Basin plan, county staff writes:

"The RWQCB is not granting us authority to permit alternative treatment systems unless an emergency situation arises."

Sooooooo........ which one is it guys?

Does the staff of the Regional Board have the authority to allow composting toilets, -- an alternative they've already raved about in official documents, saying that composting toilets "will" improve the water quality in Los Osos -- or is it the staff of SLO County, which has just written this: "The RWQCB is not granting us authority to permit alternative treatment systems..."?

It would appear that someone needs to inform both of those staffs that there's something called the Internet these days, and there's some smart-ass reporter out there that knows how to use it.

Sometimes, I think the timing of the Basin Plan Update is due solely to the fact that I caught the RWQCB staff's f-up -- when they hastily popped out Item 19, and raved about composting toilets, because they didn't think that document all the way through -- and now they want to fix that f-up, because that one, tiny-major f-up makes it so there will never be another sewer system anywhere in their region... everyone will just get an "advanced" (the staff of the RWQCB's word) composting toilet system, they won't have much of a choice... unless they want to spend BIG $$$ just to flush with water.

That's WHY those staffs played that song-and-dance game with Rhian on this subject -- Item 19.

Finally, in the county's report, it reads:

"Mandatory Septic Management Programs:

In areas like Santa Margarita (with clay soils, high groundwater and frequent flooding), this could create a defacto septic moratorium."

Sucks being right all the time.

10:03 AM, April 17, 2008
Churadogs said...

Just posted Steve Paige's comments. He makes clear several key points that point how how badly managed and written and thought through the whole LOPZ plan was. That got both RWQCB and the community stuck in a hole of the RWQCB's own making and they refuse to back out and get sane and take another look -- ESPECIALLY in light of recent technology for onsites, etc. Nope. In a hole and gonna stay there. And if that means destroying a whole community in order to avoid backing out of a totally unnecessary hole of their own making, then that's what they'll do. And with this stealth update, that's exactly what's on line for the entire county. You have been warned.

8:35 AM, April 18, 2008

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