Officials refuse to stop selling out the City & Citizens refuse to control their government. There will be NO State Welfare Bailout.
The City of Beaumont has submitted a $108,647,000 Financial Assistance Application to the State Water Resource Control Board for the Sewer Plant.
The Application includes Section VI. Sustainability that states: “A project that supports or incorporates one of more of the following sustainability goals receives one priority point for each area addressed.
The City marked two of the six options, G2 and G5.
G2 – Applicant Maintains a Capital Improvement Plan, and Asset Management Plan, or has performed a full-cost pricing analysis, or the project incorporates climate change adaption.
The City’s backup documentation is nothing more than summarizing the ‘Beaumont Option’ and Regionalization Option’ and the concluding sentence; “The City has determined that the Beaumont Option was the most economical alternative to provide additional wastewater treatment and TDS reduction.”
G5 – The project incorporates wastewater or storm/urban runoff recycling, water conservation, energy conservation, low impact development, or reduced use of other vital resources.
The City’s backup documentation for G5 consists of a single paragraph:
“The City’s project is required to implement wastewater recycling in order to comply with the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (RWQCB) Basin Plan. The City along with other local stakeholders negotiated an implementation with the RWQCB which included a commitment to utilize recycled wastewater over the Beaumont and San Timoteo groundwater basins. The recycled water must meet all aspects of the California Title 22 standards as well as the TDS limits, as stipulated in the Basin Plan. The City’s project will implement wastewater recycling by utilizing a membrane bioreactor (MBR) process followed by ultraviolet light disinfection to produce tertiary effluent. The MBR process will be followed by a reverse osmosis process to remove TDS. Title 22 compliant recycled water will then be treated with chlorine prior to delivery to the recycled water distribution system operated by other.”
In 1993 ‘The City along with other local stakeholders negotiated an implementation with the RWQCB which included a commitment to utilize recycled wastewater..’
Again in 2002 under the guise of STWMA ‘The City along with other local stakeholders negotiated an implementation with the RWQCB which included a commitment to utilize recycled wastewater’
And again in 2010 after STWMA was dissolved and Mark Wildermuth slithered over to the City of Beaumont’s payroll ‘The City along with other local stakeholders negotiated an implementation with the RWQCB which included a commitment to utilize recycled wastewater.’
The Citizens of California are NOT paying for Beaumont’s 1/4 century of corruption. After the Raids Beaumont had the chance to do the right thing and release the Sewer Plant to the Water District, but the City refused because the Sewer Plant is a cash cow that’s still be milked to this day.
Beaumont Officials refuse to stop selling out the City to the highest bidder and Beaumont Citizens refuse to control their government – throwing more money into a dirty town isn’t going to help the situation.