by Lou Preston

Acting on a motion by the Dry Creek Valley Association’s Board of Directors, President Ed Wilson fired off a letter to the California State Water Resources Control Board to protest the planned disposal of substantial quantities of Sonoma County’s treated waste water in the Dry Creek Valley watershed. The project, dubbed the Northern Sonoma County Agricultural Reuse Project or NSCARP, is in the draft stage of the State-mandated environmental impact review.

Your DCVA Board has devoted many meetings and long hours to the subject of potential water degradation in our Valley. The unfortunate consequence of municipal and County growth is the need to do something with the vastly increasing volumes of waste water. The grand plan to pump it all to the Geysers for deep well injection quickly became insufficient and agricultural areas have become the next target for the sweep-it-under-the-rug approach of government agencies.

Our concern, aptly expressed by President Wilson, is that disposal of this effluent by irrigation onto our prime soils will forever contaminate our still pristine ground water and damage the image and reputation of our world class wines. Further that the State regulatory policy and programs do not adequately address the environmental and economic damage that would likely ensue.

Citizen input is a crucial element in the development of public policy. The timely filing of this letter ensures the DCVA will have a place at the table as the hearing and review process proceeds.

Links:

• DCVA Complaint Letter to Water Board
• NSCARP Draft EIR
  

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