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County explains sewer-spill accounting and seeks funds for Southeast collection upgrades
Summary
Special Districts Administrator Robin Borre described recent sewer-spill reporting practices, said a major incident’s certified report listed ~3,900 gallons actually discharged after pumpbacks, and asked the Board to support grant applications and CIP projects for line cleaning, CCTV and headworks realignment.
Robin Borre, Lake County’s Special Districts Administrator, used the governance workshop to explain how the county estimates sewer-spill volumes and to describe work underway to reduce chronic collection-system failures. "When we respond ... we are able to deduct [what we recover] from the total that's actually spilled," Borre said, explaining the difference between initial incident estimates and the certified report submitted to the state.
Borre discussed a recent large incident at Southeast where early system estimates reported up to 2.9 million gallons in…
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