Supervisors Certify Occidental Pipeline EIR
By Brenda Adelman
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, acting as Directors of the Occidental County Sanitation District (OCSD), recently certified a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) for a wastewater pipeline project that would hook up Occidental and Camp Meeker to the Russian River County Sanitation District. This SEIR had recently been declared “inadequate” by the lead agency, Camp Meeker Recreation and Park District.
To justify this decision, overriding the legitimate ruling of the “lead” agency, the County’s Resolution stated, “District staff want to emphasize that the District does not intend to pursue the project identified in the Final SEIR, and recommend certification to stop the District and its ratepayers from receiving additional fines.” ($1000 a day beginning February 1st) The Supervisors’ latest vote is a testament to the County’s failure to resolve West County wastewater issues since 1995, when the Sonoma County Water Agency took over management of County sanitation districts.