Next Step - SEWER
http://malibu.patch.com/articles/malibu-city-council-to-consider-next-step-for-sewer
We, the residents of Malibu, voted to become a city so we could stop the sewers for development reasons. Sewers themselves are not the problem. While we slowed the nightmare of what development would do to our beloved rural coastline, we did not stop the pollution caused from the third world methods of discharging human waste into the high water tables below our houses and businesses. Stopping the sewers has been a double edged sword as the City Of Malibu has not enforced stricter regulations on all outdated and/or antiquated septic systems and our beaches are receiving “F” grades. When tides are very high, beach front residents sometimes can’t flush there toilets because their leech fields and septic tanks are inundated with saltwater. What goes up must go down. Garbage in, garbage out. The Regional Water Board is stepping in because Malibu has not stepped up to the painful task of properly enforcing discharge violators. Take a walk at low tide along beach front properties that are on poles and hanging off the shore bluffs. If you can’t see the leech fields bleeding onto the beaches, you surely can smell it. We are one of the wealthiest beach communities in the world. Malibu residents and beach goers should be able to have healthy beaches free of household and human waste and the ability to keep development at bay. We prevented the Chili Cookoff area from being developed and we can retire the rest of the commercial areas too. We need every Malibu resident on board to accomplish this.
I don’t know if anyone remembers the cry for relief from all the traffic congestion last summer, but I sure do. It always started in the heart of Malibu where those ill-placed shopping malls pollute everything and traffic gets backed up from there all the way back to the McClure Tunnel. Bumper to bumper crawl for ten miles. Half the day is spent trying to get to Zuma. This summer is a bit different because its just getting worse with more traffic due to population growth and the city leaders refuse to do anything that might creat the perception of a “TAKING” from those commercial developers like Steve Soboroff and Don Schmidt.
This issue is really quite simple.
Malibu residents and their elected City Council have been on notice for many years that the status quo of raw sewage flowing into public watercourses is not acceptable in modern society, and that they have only two options:
Upgrade septic systems.
Hook up into a sewage treatment system.
Malibu has made it quite clear that residents refuse to upgrade their septic systems. That leaves only one recourse to stop deadly disease pathogens from contaminating Malibu’ coastline.
Is just me that thinks that is totally insane for the City to even consider additional development with no consensus regarding where the s**t will go?