The Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District has released its final environmental impact report for the chloride compliance plan to possibly truck brine out of the community to a water treatment plant in Carson.

The 1,469-page document is available to the public and is expected to be presented to the district’s board of directors for consideration on March 23 at Santa Clarita City Hall. There will be an opportunity for public comment at the meeting.

The final environmental impact report, or EIR, consists of three volumes and highlights many items such as planning area characteristics, laws and regulations, water and wastewater projections and air quality, among others.

About six truckloads of brine, with a maximum of 10, would be driven during off-peak hours to the proposed facility, Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in Carson. The facility treats over 270 million gallons of wastewater per day from much of the Los Angeles Basin and discharges it to the ocean, according to a news release.

Brine is the salty water byproduct from the advanced treatment process that will be used to remove chloride from wastewater, said Bryan Langpap, project manager for the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, in a previous story. Chloride, or salt, is added to water through soaps and other household chemicals.

A draft supplemental EIR was released for public review in November 2015, saying the project would not result in any significant impacts to the environment.

Two public hearings were held in December attended by four and 12 people, respectively, and seven comment letters were received.

The final EIR provides responses to all comments received during the public review period, according to a news release.

The chloride compliance plan must be implemented by July 1, 2019, as set by the state.

If the deadline is not met, the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, or SCVSD, would face a $2,000,000 minimum annual fine, which would be paid for by Santa Clarita Valley residents, until a chloride compliance plan is implemented, Friess said in a previous story.

A plan was approved in 2013 to install a deep well injection site near the Valencia Tournament Players Club golf course to dispose of brine. However, the plan did not go through because of widespread opposition from Santa Clarita Valley residents.

“We came back to our directors and said, ‘we can’t implement deep well injection at another location or a pipeline to the ocean by July 1, 2019,’” said Phil Friess, head of Technical Services of the district, in a previous story.

In May of 2015, the SCVSD board members approved of staff further investigating new brine management alternatives, including environmental review, said Langpap.

The SCVSD, is the public agency responsible for treating the SCV’s wastewater out of two plants: the Saugus Water Reclamation Plant and Valencia Water Reclamation Plant, according to a news release. These plants release highly treated water into the Santa Clara River.