Regional Board out of touch

Area residents need to know how disconnected the Regional Water Quality Control Board is from the reality of its mission. You only need to go to the comments of one of its members.

As of the Sept. 1 hearing in Agoura Hills, she suggested a “solution” that all the water from the Tapia water treatment facility could be put in trucks and the water used to spray lawns in the area. Doing some rough calculations, assuming each truck could hold 5,000 gallons, taking some 10 million gallons of treated wastewater from Tapia would require 2,000 truckloads through our community each day. Assuming each truck was 40 feet in length, that’s a line of trucks 15 miles long, not to mention the diesel exhaust.

This is but one example of the “environmental” minds that are making decisions on whether your water treatment rates will double or triple. It’s time for the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to get real and take its job seriously.

I spoke publicly to the board, supporting the findings of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District and asked that board to follow the approach outlined by Dr. Randal Orton, our watershed administrator for the LVMWD. I can now only recommend that the people of our city be aware of public hearings and pay attention to these issues that have such monetary affects on them personally. Diane Walker Former Agoura Hills planning commissioner