CAMARILLO : Board to Consider Airport Sewer Rule
The Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance today that would establish sewage disposal rules and regulations at Camarillo Airport.
Camarillo Utility Enterprise, a nonprofit utility system, already provides services such as sewer, water and street lighting for the airport and other property owners and tenants at the complex. But the utility system has been operating since 1976 without formal rules for regulating sewage use.
Federal law now requires that all publicly owned sewage treatment systems follow a program that reduces industrial pollution. A year ago the Environmental Protection Agency authorized the state to implement the federal program.
Under the program, toxic pollutants must be treated before they are released into the sewage treatment system. Under the proposed ordinance, the county could control and regulate discharges into the system, as well as comply with the Clean Water Act of 1977.
Barbara Sominsky, administrative assistant for the Department of Airports, said there have been no large toxic discharges into the system at the airport. The ordinance was proposed, she said, so that the system would comply with federal regulations.
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