Ventura County : Using Treated Sewage Water Is 1 Option
The drought began to loom large last week in the minds of Ventura city officials. With the drought in its fourth year and other jurisdictions contemplating water restrictions, the city hired a Newport Beach-based engineering firm to study 18 options for easing any future shortages.
The most controversial of the ideas involves injecting treated sewage water into the the city’s ground-water supplies. Also on the list is buying water from small water companies that irrigate farms on the city’s east side and bringing state water from Piru Creek down the Santa Paula River.
But even as Boyle Engineering Corp. presented the options to the City Council on Monday, officials warned that all the possibilities together probably would not produce much, if any, extra water for Ventura.
“There are probably three or four things in the whole list that even make sense,” said Mayor Richard Francis.
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