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Lake County board approves 25‑year extension of geysers effluent pipeline agreement; steam suppliers to assume key intake costs
Summary
The Board of Supervisors, acting as the Lake County Sanitation District board, approved Amendment No. 4 to the Southeast Geysers Effluent Pipeline project and the related Clear Lake Water Supply Agreement, extending the partnership for 25 years and shifting certain lake intake and pumping costs to steam suppliers; one supervisor later abstained following a request to reconsider.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors, sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors, on Nov. 18 approved two agreements that extend the county’s recycled-water partnership with geothermal steam‑field operators for 25 years.
Special districts administrator Robin Boray told the board the amendment clarifies which wastewater facilities are included, spells out emergency procedures, and “suspends delivery from McLeer Lake under drought conditions.” She said the amendment also changes cost sharing so that steam suppliers will pay “all of the cost for the makeup water and the main pipeline pumping power,” and that the steam suppliers will contribute an annual…
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