As Soquel wastewater treatment plant study end draws near, public plies district with questions

From the Santa Cruz Sentinel:

“Soquel resident Wayne Stanton wants to know how long it will be before he can go back to having lawns and vegetable gardens.

Stanton was one of a handful of community members on Tuesday at Twin Lakes Church to take up Soquel Creek Water District on their offer to comments on and question a draft environmental study for its proposed Pure Water Soquel project. The water district is in the midst of studying potential impacts of building a new treatment plant that would pump purified wastewater into the area’s groundwater basins. The report highlights treatment plant construction noise, plus well pumping during operations, as the project’s only major environmental impact for which mitigation measures cannot counteract. … “

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