At the Carpinteria Planning Commission meeting on Sept. 2, Carpinteria Valley Water District (CVWD) will seek approval of a Conditional Use Permit and Coastal Development Permit for the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project (CAPP). The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave.
The CAPP is being proposed to augment surface water sources with a potable reuse project to address on-going shortfalls caused by drought. The project consists of an advanced water purification facility that will be constructed at the existing Carpinteria Sanitary District wastewater treatment facility located at 5300 Sixth Street and will treat effluent to a higher level of purity. The purified water would be conveyed by a new pipeline to an injection and monitoring well system that will replenish the Carpinteria Valley Groundwater Basin Aquifer and allow for water quality monitoring. After the project is installed, the CVWD will extract the purified groundwater from existing wells to augment their customers’ water supply.
At its Sept. 2 meeting, the Commission will also consider Carpinteria Sanitary District’s acquisition of a permanent vacation of approximately 1,800 square feet of an unimproved portion of City of Carpinteria-owned Olive Avenue Right of Way to accommodate the construction of a protective flood wall around existing and new CSD electrical equipment for the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project.
Members of the public may attend the meeting at City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave., or view the meeting live at https://carpinteriaca.gov/, on Government Access Television Channel 21 or by logging into the Zoom webinar. Additional details and numerous ways for the public to provide comments can be found at https://cityofcarp.co/PCSept22025. Comments posted on social media will not be provided to council members.
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