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Public commenters urge pause on purple-pipe expansion and question airport advocacy counsel

Carlsbad City Council · February 24, 2026
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Summary

Two members of the public raised health and governance concerns during the non-agenda public-comment period: one urged the council to pause expansion of the city's recycled-water "purple pipe" system pending independent epidemiological studies; another alleged potential conflicts around an airport advocacy group and its outside counsel.

Mike Barillo, a resident who spoke during the meeting's public-comment period, urged the City Council to pause further expansion of Carlsbad's recycled-water distribution (often called "purple pipe") until independent, large-scale epidemiological studies measure respiratory and other health outcomes in exposed neighborhoods. Barillo said students at Hope Elementary were exposed in 2021 after a construction cross connection and that he filed…

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