Input on Sewage Plant Expansion
The public has until Wednesday to submit comments for a hearing on whether the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts’ sewage plant in Carson should be expanded to provide more intensive treatment.
A date has not been set for the hearing, which will be held before an administrative law judge, but public comments submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
The sanitation agency is resisting the expansion, arguing that it would be expensive and environmentally counterproductive. The agency has requested a waiver from a federal law that requires upgraded treatment of the 350 million gallons of waste water the plant pumps daily into the ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected the waiver request on Dec. 14. Sanitation officials requested the administrative hearing to challenge the EPA decision. Public comments should be addressed to: Water Management Division (W 71), Environmental Protection Agency--Region 9, 75 Hawthorne St., San Francisco 94105.
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