Article submitted by City of Sedona AZ
Sedona AZ (November 21, 2016) – The city of Sedona invites residents and property owners to a public meeting on Monday, December 5, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Sedona’s City Hall to hear about the initial steps in the planning process for the city’s Wastewater Master Plan (WWMP). This meeting will also provide an opportunity for attendees to voice their wastewater needs and ability or desire to connect to the city’s system in the future.
The city of Sedona contracted Carollo Engineers to develop a WWMP as a tool to guide future improvements to the wastewater collection and treatment systems which meets the needs of the residents and businesses of Sedona, and protects the environment and natural resources for future generations.
At the public meeting, the planning team will present the history of the city’s wastewater system, why the WWMP is needed, the plan’s objectives and planning process, and then provide time for residents to share their wastewater concerns and issues with the planning team.
“We are holding this meeting to inform residents about the Wastewater Master Plan process and what it includes, and then listen to their thoughts and concerns, whether it be from those on septic systems interested in connecting to city sewer or general concerns residents may have about their wastewater system,” said Roxanne Holland, associate engineer, city of Sedona.
This public meeting is one of the initial steps in the planning process, which will likely be followed by mailers or discussions with those property owners that are near the existing system or have expressed an interest in connecting, with a follow up public meeting next year to present the draft of the WWMP for comments.
For more information on the WWMP, contact Holland at RHolland@SedonaAZ.gov or 928-203-5069.
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My 2 cents? Injection well systems need to be discontinued, ecologically dangerous. Go back to spray. Do proper research and find it destroyed coral reefs, causes earthquakes. Cheap and easy destroyed millions of years of reefs and closed 89A last year. Your tourist $$ disappear if 89A closes through the switchbacks but who cares? Chamber & city & eco groups & constituents silent and ought to be #1 proponents of no injection wells but you get what you elect to associate with in government & life. Stay away from our neck of the woods.
Like this site. Good to be a pain in the ass of the lazy & unimaginative. A writer’s coverage kept me from getting a smart meter. That’s powerful stuff folks.
@ Ranger Man, Payson — Before Sedona’s injection well project was started a some years ago as a “pilot project,” I did what I could to stop it. I was fairly alone in my attempt. None of the local eco groups cared. In fact, one of the Council members who was a Sierra Club member actually voted for it!
I provided Sedona Council with heaps of information. I suggested that a real pilot project would be for the people promoting this idea to have the sewer water piped into their homes, drink and bath in it, then get back to us in about 20 years. When it came to a vote, Barbara Litrell was the only Council member out of 7 to vote NO. As for the other 6, all I can say is what Mr. Natural said, “He who sh*ts in the road will meet with flies upon his return.”
When the issue was being promoted, I made the point about contaminated waste water to City Engineer Mosley and he replied that “only the lower life forms were affected, amphibians.” Really. I can imagine Mosley as foreman in a coal mine: “Don’t worry about that dead canary, fellas; it’s just a lower life form.”
Below are links to stuff I wrote about the issue and were published here at the Eye. The first link is about Sedona’s then Vice-Mayor hoping people downstream from Sedona will drink our waste water. Honestly! The second link goes to a fairly long-winded article, but if you scroll down a bit I finally get to the point. At the end there are links to documentation.
For all their blabber about “sustainability,” Sedona Council was and remains clueless.
https://sedonaeye.com/sewer-water-injection-well-lawsuit/
https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-chemicals-in-sedona-tap-water/
Where will you be that’s more important? Sedona, city taxpayers be there. Show you care about something that you can do something about here and now.