On Wednesday, the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) Sanitation District’s Board of Directors certified the Final Recirculated Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District Chloride Compliance Project Environmental Impact Report – Separation of Recycled Water Project.
This is the next step in complying with a strict State-mandated limit on the amount of chloride (salt) in the SCV Sanitation District’s highly-treated water discharged to the Santa Clara River.
As background, the SCV Sanitation District Board of Directors approved an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) in October 2013 that evaluated the impacts of two actions: a Chloride Compliance Project to meet the State-mandated chloride limit; and a Recycled Water Project to enable the community to increase reuse of treated water that would otherwise be discharged to the river. The 2013 EIR was challenged in court, and the court’s ruling has delayed both projects until additional study is completed on the potential impacts to unarmored threespine stickleback, an endangered fish.
Of the two projects in the 2013 EIR, only the Chloride Compliance Project is subject to a regulatory deadline and fines. To address the court’s ruling and enable the Chloride Compliance Project to proceed, the Recirculated EIR was prepared to evaluate the environmental impacts of pursuing the Recycled Water Project separately from the Chloride Compliance Project. The Recirculated EIR concluded that separation of the Recycled Water Project from the Chloride Compliance Project would reduce impacts relative to those previously identified and would not result in any new mitigation measures. The Chloride Compliance Project that was previously presented to the community and approved by the SCV Sanitation District Board is unchanged by the Recirculated EIR.
“Yesterday’s Board certification is a significant step in meeting the State-mandated chloride limit and protecting our ratepayers from fines that could result from delays caused by the lawsuit,” said Grace Robinson Hyde, the SCV Sanitation District’s Chief Engineer and General Manager.
The Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District serves the wastewater (sewage) management needs of the Santa Clarita Valley. The agency protects public health and the environment by constructing, operating and maintaining a regional system that collects, treats and recycles wastewater from the homes and businesses in the community.
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What I don’t understand is why the Sanitation district isn’t enforcing the water softener ban. There are other ways of softening water that don’t include the salt that hurts the river and water quality. But stores are still selling lots of salt (like Smart and Final – you would think they would try to help our community by not doing this.) Where is the Sanitation district – they are supposed to be the over site on this issue?