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P.G.’s Recycled Sewer Water Not Substainable

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Maybe sell some to Nader’s Hotel. Get Moe to drink some on camera.

Point Pinos Sewer Tanks

 

Nearly five years after Pacific Grove officials broke ground with golden-hued shovels for construction of a wastewater reclamation plant on Point Pinos in hopes of creating revenue from the sale of recycled water and water credits, the city is finding out the financial returns aren’t as golden as they had hoped.

The P.G. Local Water Project costs more than the city makes on recycled water. Last fiscal year the city loaned the project $600,000 to make up for less-than-expected revenue since the plant opened in December 2017, according to the 2021-22 budget.

P.G.’s Recycled Sewer Water Not Substainable

Beaches Close As Millions Of Gallons Of Raw Sewage Dump In The Bay

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From those fine people that brought you ongoing sewage spills at Lovers Point We have another one by Monterey Wonder Water, better known as Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency.

Monterey One Water says as much as 4.9 million gallons of wastewater spilled into the Monterey Bay. The leak was caused by an equipment failure at their wastewater treatment facility in Marina. The beach coastline between Marina State Beach and Stillwater Cove, Monterey, California are closed as a result.

Beaches Close As Millions Of Gallons Of Raw Sewage Dump In The Bay

Two Years After Massive Sewage Spill, MRWPCA Believes Pump Is Fixed

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City Councilman Rudy Fischer also serves as Monterey Wonder Water’s chairman of the board. Didn’t know that.

Also, MRWPCA changed it’s name to Monterey One Water sometime after the sewer spill. We have some creative and corporate savvy people there I’d say.

In all, nine pump stations exist in Pacific Grove with seven of them belonging to the city and two, including the one along Ocean View Boulevard, belonging to Monterey One Water.

While Jennifer Gonzalez, engineering manager for Monterey One Water, wasn’t quite as optimistic as Fischer in terms of the project being done by Sunday, she said when it is finished it will provide more reliability.

“We want reliability in all or our pump stations,” said Gonzalez, noting that the pumps need to be operational for the wet weather season, which Monterey One Water considers to officially begin on Suday. The station “is approaching 35- to 40-years-old at this point. Some of the valves have gotten to the end of their useful life.”

Fischer also noted the renovation is in response to the sewage spill that occurred in May of 2015.

Two Years After Massive Sewage Spill, MRWPCA Believes Pump Is Fixed

Change It To Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency

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Not a repeat from 2015’s What Do You Smell, Ralph?

Raw wastewater flowed onto the Rec Trail and into the Monterey Bay from about 7 to 8:30 p.m. after a power surge caused the pump station’s electrical equipment to fail, according to Mike McCullough, government affairs administrator of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency.

“All of the bumps and power surges — sometimes that can throw some of the electronic equipment into chaos,” said McCullough, who noted that shortly after the incident, officials from the agency successfully hooked up another generator to do the pumping that needed to be done.

Change It To Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency

Pavel’s Reopens

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Open one day a week. That’s an art gallery schedule!

The bakery is open Saturdays, but closed Sundays and Mondays.

Pacific Grove residents can rest a little easier. After a temporary shutdown due to sewer line repairs, Pavel’s Backerei on Forest Avenue is opening with a limited supply of baked goods for sale on Friday morning, the owners announced on Facebook Thursday night.

Pavel’s Reopens

City Shuts Down Pavel’s

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Mr Rooter

City Manager Ben Harvey said the temporary closure is the result of a broken sewer line in combination with an out-of-order employee bathroom.

Crews with Mr. Rooter were busy repairing the line Tuesday, but the business owners, Paul and Johanna Wainscoat, said the timing on the closure could not be worse.

The baker said there have been five times in the last two years when the bakery was closed and repairs could have been made without disruption, but he said the property owner did not take care of the sewer line.

More than nine months ago, A.G. Davi took over management of the property. Jeff Davi, the president of the company, said he doesn’t believe the landlord knew the line was broken for two years.

“It is not true. There was a leak in the summertime. There was an issue that was resolved. (We) thought we fixed it satisfactorily, and of course, it wasn’t the case,” Davi said.

Davi said redoing the sewer line is an expensive job, but it is now the only option on the table, and it is going to take a few days.

“It has to be completely redone, and the city is involved, and the city wants it done right, so we have to have the whole thing replaced,” he said.

The repairs are expected to take at least three days.

City Shuts Down Pavel’s

Drains And Doors Clogged At Pavel’s

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No functioning bathroom? Eeeew.

City officials said on Monday that the bakery had to cease operations so that the building’s owner, Gary Delahanty of Carmel, could make major repairs to a non-functioning employee bathroom and a leaking lateral sewer line that runs to Forest Avenue.

According to Harvey, there has been a long-term dispute between Pavel’s management and the property owner that came to a head recently when the Monterey County Health Department got wind of the non-functioning employee bathroom. The city soon got involved, and once city Building Official John Kuehl determined repairs had to be made, Harvey said they had no choice but to shut down Pavel’s until repairs were complete.

Drains And Doors Clogged At Pavel’s

What Do You Smell, Ralph?

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Smells like a rate hike for improvements to the poo pumps, Norton.

The civil grand jury found that since the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency owned and operated the pump station and was making repairs when the overflow occurred, it was responsible for the spill. In its report, the grand jury said the pollution control agency did not have a procedure to address potential false pressure readings and that the agency’s response was appropriate given the alternative.

The 2015 sanitary sewer overflow, which released 220,000 gallons of untreated sewage, occurred at the Fountain Avenue pump station owned and operated by the water pollution control agency.

What Do You Smell, Ralph?

Sewers And The Mvsevm. Confused News

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Saved news article from KION news. Does the Mvsevm have a historical exhibit of a 100 year old sewer collection?

“In the fall of this year we will be replacing the sanitary sewer line along Oceanview Blvd., and in conjunction with that project we will be replacing over a mile of storm drain line,” said Gho.

“I think Pacific Grove really values its history. Its cultural history and its natural history. And I think the museum operates on both fronts to preserve all aspects of our history,” said Museum Collection Curator Paul Vandecarr.

This year is also historic.

“This actually marks the 100th year anniversary of the City owning the collection here at the museum,” said Vandecarr.

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