Our goal is to increase the public’s awareness of the septic-to-sewer project for Los Olivos so that people understand what the Los Olivos Community Services District (“CSD”) is doing in connection with the project today. LOCAL Control fully supports a sensible, informed, prompt, economically sound, and local plan for building a sewer system and sewage treatment plant in Los Olivos.
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Join us at upcoming Los Olivos Community Services District (“CSD”) meetings to share your opinions and have your voice heard.
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Los Olivos Sewer-to-Septic Project
Please check out this great letter, published yesterday in the Santa Barbara Independent: Weigh in on Wastewater Solution @ 6pm on Wednesday, May 15
Informative Letter to the Editor Published by Noozhawk —> Drilling in on Who Should Pay for the Los Olivos Sewer Project: The 6-year Saga Continues
Please check out this great letter, published yesterday in the Santa Barbara Independent: Wastewater Options for Los Olivos.
Preservation of Los Olivos (POLO) to the Rescue
The Los Olivos Community Service District is gifted a $75,000 Grant to complete a third-party study to determine the most efficient and cost-effective wastewater options for Los Olivos residents, to protect the groundwater, and to preserve our quaint town’s history and open spaces.
The LOCSD Board is deciding some big-ticket items this week. Hope you can come out and encourage more positive progress!
For the Los Olivos Community Services District — charged with devising an affordable and palatable solution to the tiny, historic township’s groundwater quality problem — it beginning to look less like a simple matter of “if you build it, they will come.” Rather, “they” (whoever they are) are already here and itching to break ground. Moreover, if we’re not careful, local residents could end up footing the bill for the infrastructure that is going to be necessary to support the current and future large-scale development.
Where have all the assessment fees gone,? Long time passing. Where have all the grant funds gone? Long time ago.
Budget Hearing - 6 pm this Wednesday, July 12, 2023. St. Mark’s or Zoom.
If you do not know what is going on with the septic-to-sewer project in Los Olivos, please join the meeting at 6pm this Wednesday, June 14.
Even if you hate attending community meetings, please come out for this one, and bring your voice!
Please spread the word far and wide: The Los Olivos CSD is going to host a Public Workshop at 6pm this coming Tuesday, January 24, at St. Marks and via Zoom.
Surprise “annual” LOCSD State of the District meeting announced with less than 48-hours notice.
Local landowner and resident concerns about the possibility of expansion and sprawl are not “scare tactics” or unfounded. It is essential that the sewer component of this project be kept small — in order to preserve what is special about our historic town and our beautiful Valley.
Another extremely well written letter — this time from a Los Olivos parent and neighbor — recently published by Noozhawk and EdHat.
I write to tell anyone interested that I stand by my statements in the “Flush the Board” flyer recently distributed both on this website (see Oct. 18, 2022 post) and in hard copies delivered door-to-door.
We can use VOTING POWER to protect historic Los Olivos from the expansive and destructive project the current board members have been pursuing for the last year and a half.
A Los Olivos resident argues that the community needs accurate information about the town's septic to sewer project.
This recent Letter from LOCSD General Manager Guy Savage raises some interesting questions.
Check out this recently published OpEd piece by our neighbor and longtime Los Olivos resident Michelle de Werd
The Los Olivos CSD Board Members want to know why some people do not trust them. Here my answers. (Long post with lots of live hyperlinks to source documents)
Thoughtful public comment submitted to the CSD Board for inclusion as part of the July 13, 2022 CSD Meeting.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me repeatedly over the course of a year, shame on you, Los Olivos CSD.
Upcoming LOCSD meeting, Intro. of exciting Gravity Sewer Alternatives, and new Yard Signs
The next CSD meeting, how to share your views with supervisor Joann Hartman, and we need your input!
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This letter was written in light of ongoing public comments by LOCSD Dir. Fayram and GM Savage advocating for the largest, most expensive, most outdated and environmentally destructive possible “solution” to this tiny township’s alleged nitrate “problem.”