Santa Clarita City Council members and the Board of Directors for the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District are discussing the deep well injection site at their meetings this week.

Santa Clarita City Council members are set to discuss the report on alternative deep well injection sites at their meeting on Tuesday, March 10.

The state is making the SCV Sanitation District limit the amount of chloride sent to Ventura County via the Santa Clara River to 100 mg/liter. The chloride-compliance project — a deep well built to store the excess brine more than 2 miles under the earth — was identified as the cheapest option by Sanitation District staff back in 2013.

The Board of Directors for the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District is holding a special meeting Wednesday, March 11 to discuss changing the proposed location for the deep well injection site.

Due to strong objections from residents, the board will consider withdrawing the current proposed location for the deep-well injection element of its chloride-compliance project and evaluate other locations, according to the Sanitation District’s agenda.

That same feedback is what prompted the City Council to agendized the item, and two City Council members –Mayor Marsha McLean and Laurene Weste — are on the three-person Sanitation District governing board.

The council may also be considering requesting an extension to the comment period for the Draft EIR, according to the City Council’s agenda.

The City Council might also consider requesting alternative solutions to the proposed deep well injection.

Other locations have to fit with the existing schedule established by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region.

If deadlines are not met, the district faces huge fines which will fall on the district’s ratepayers.

One element of the compliance project is deep well injection of the brine produced during the advanced treatment.

Santa Clarita City Council meetings are scheduled on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month in the City Council Chambers beginning at 6 p.m.
The special meeting for the Sanitation Board will be held at 6 p.m. at City Hall in Valencia.