Our city manager, Jim Thorsen, tells us that “Rainwater will be treated at the city’s newly constructed storm water treatment facility and a portion will be reused for irrigation.” Since when do we have to treat rainwater to irrigate? The earth appears to have been doing just fine for billions of years using untreated rainwater.
If, as he says, “Legacy Park will not have any sewage ponds nor will sewage be treated on the Legacy Park site,” then these three ponds, filled only with rainwater, will be dry dust bowls most of the year. However, I may be unclear on this. Maybe he means that the sewage will be treated at the plant located on the north side of Civic Center Way, not in Legacy Park itself, and then the pure freshly treated sewer water will be piped over to fill these ponds before being dumped into Malibu Creek. Dust bowls or sewer bowls, time will tell. The city works in mysterious ways.
Jack Singleton