Council: EIR on MRF, food digester,
composting at old WWTP on agenda
October 03, 2014
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
The City Council will consider approving an environmental review to allow the city’s former Corporation Road sewer plant to be converted to a 45,000 square foot materials recovery facility including the construction of a food digester creation of aerated composting piles and a recycled natural gas fueling station. The council will meet at 6:15 p.m. for a closed session to address two items of existing litigation, the ongoing arbitration with Santa Paula Water LLC regarding the city’s new wastewater treatment plant as well as the state Regional Water Quality Control Board’s stipulated judgment and final order issued in 2007.
The meeting will be continued at 6:30 in City Hall Council Chambers, 970 E. Ventura St.
The session will be broadcast live by Time Warner Cable Channel 10 and replayed according to schedule. The meeting will also be streamed live on the city’s website and archived for later viewing on demand.
The council will recognize Fire Prevention Week and Dr. Barry Boatman, CEO C.A.R.E. at Vantage Ranch will offer a presentation.
There will also be an update on the state’s newly signed law banning single-use plastic bags during the Communications portion of the hearing.
The Consent Calendar is reserved for items considered routine and not warranting council discussion unless pulled, and on Monday’s agenda is the environmental review to be approved by the council and paid for by Crown Disposal Co., which now owns the former sewer plant that sits on 7.8 acres just west of Peck Road and south of Highway 126.
The environmental review will examine issues related to tearing down the sewer plant to be converted to a 45,000 square foot recycling center, construction of a food digester, aerated composting piles and creation of a recycled natural gas fueling station. The contract when Crown purchased the property in 2012 did include a $1 per ton “host fee” that would be paid to the city for dumping.
The council will also be asked to appoint two members to the Planning Commission, okay the auction of police weapons no longer used by the department and the purchase of new handguns and the mandatory 20 percent water use reduction and other measures taken by the state in response to the drought.
