Author

Such a poor use of resources…..Over a year ago Russian River County Sanitation District (RRCSD) was penalized almost $1,000,000 by the Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) as a result of a large illegal discharge of raw and partially treated sewage into the Russian River during the February/March, 2019, flood.

RRWPC‘s 45 year history of advocating for a clean lower Russian River environment has led to the accumulation of a great number of boxes filled with documents, old newspapers, and memorabilia about the river and our work. 

For the last several months, all has been quiet on the wastewater front, at least as far as the public has been concerned.  We have taken the time to work on getting our papers in order and managed to attack about 1% of what needs to be done.  It’s a snail’s pace effort.   But now, County actions are stirring things up again.

Dear Russian River Supporter:
September saw the dam break, so to speak. RRWPC has been focused on several long term issues for what feels like a very long time, waiting for something meaningful to happen. There were changes to the missions, changes of staff, stalling on documents, hold ups on plan approvals, and more.