Oxnard-- The conversation with Assistant Public Works Director Joseph Marcinko about the May public hearing to consider adjustments in the water rate continues with Oxnard’s awesome water resource, which is why he’s at the City.
He said the City does everything it can to keep water costs low, the last rate study and increase were in 2017, and there is no blue sky built into the current adjustment.
“The Advanced Water Purification Facility and the ability to produce 7,000 acre-feet a year, 14,000 acre-feet in expansion with a clean, high-quality supply, and be able to use your potable water system is an awesome thing to have,” he said. “Part of the rate increase is to be able to move that project forward so we can get an aquifer storage and recovery well.”
He said the water from that plant is ultra-pure, and the best way to use it is through (IPR) Indirect Potable Reuse.
“We already have a well constructed, but we need the infrastructure, and that’s what they’re working on now,” Marcinko said. “They are getting the infrastructure made so we can put that water in the ground. There are different types of IPR, but when you put it…
