Regional Water Board Hearing Is Still Set for Nov. 5 as Location Reverts Back to the Original Site that Was First Announced

• Residents Urged to Monitor Specifics until Last Minute

The meeting location for the hearing when the Regional Water Quality Control Board is scheduled to consider a prohibition on future septic tanks and stringently regulate existing wastewater procesing facilities for the Malibu Civic Center and surrounding neighborhoods will be held in the board room of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California at 700 North Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 5 at 9 a.m.
That is the meeting location that was first announced for the important hearing that will have major ramifications for local wastewater policy. The location was then moved to Simi Valley, but was switched back to the MWD board room, when the RWQCB determined that a major turnout is anticipated to attend and larger meeting quarters might be advisable.
The Malibu issue is the final item on the agenda, but most of the other items are described as uncontested and expected to be handled routinely, according to the agenda notice.
The agenda item’s formal description is “consideration of an amendment to the Basin Plan to prohibit discharge from onsite wastewater disposal systems in the Malibu Civic Center area, including Malibu valley and surrounding hillsides, Winter Canyon and surrounding hillsides and the coastal strips along the Pacific Coast Highway between and including Carbon Beach and Amarillo Beach.
The deadline for submission of written materials—Oct. 8—remained unchanged.