Assemblyman Wilk asks Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Board to Extend Chloride Deadline

SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, has asked the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) to extend both the public comment period and extend the certification deadline.

Recently, the RWQCB has ordered the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District (SCVSD) to meet chloride limit of 100 milligrams per liter pursuant to the Federal Clean Water Act. Currently, a comment period is occurring to solicit public opinion on a number of variations of the SCVSD Chloride Compliance Facilities Plan. If no extension is granted, the public comment period will end on June 24^th, 2013.

“This is a complicated and potentially expensive issue that needs to be carefully evaluated.  I'm committed to finding a solution that is backed by sound science and least costly to SCVSD rate payers,” said Wilk.