Water and Wastewater Review: 2007
By Brenda Adelman
Year 2007 has been an extremely active year for water and wastewater issues in Sonoma County. Russian River Watershed Protection Committee (RRWPC) has tracked numerous issues and written about them in the Gazette this year. Here’s a year-end summary.
Santa Rosa Wastewater:
- Discharge: Santa Rosa has been actively developing a Russian River direct discharge. Early in the year they eliminated studies of indirect discharges along with the direct discharge immediately downstream of their water intakes. Remaining are two discharges in the Healdsburg area and one just downstream of Steelhead Beach in Forestville (near Russian River Utility’s well). The City recently released 3 of the 6 documents containing studies of these projects on their website. Remaining documents will be released by early spring of 2008.