EditorialA City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

A new membrane bioreactor treatment plant has set the California city of Malibu on a course for water recycling and drought mitigation

  • Appeared in print as "A Local Solution"
  • By Jim Force
  • July 2019
  • Top Performer - Plant
A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems
A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

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A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

Effluent is disinfected in a TrojanUVFIT system.

Property owners in the coastal California city of Malibu preferred a local wastewater treatment solution to a regional approach. The choice is proving to be beneficial.

Under government orders to phase out of septic systems, the oceanfront community of 13,000 chose to construct...

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