What is going on at the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant?
A major construction project, referred to as Phase 2, was recently completed to address critical infrastructure upgrading and increasing overall capacity expansion needs. The City just started the Phase 3 improvements, that will focus on improving effluent quality, particularly reducing the nitrogen compounds in the effluent discharged in the creek. Over $100,000,000 is proposed to be spent in this three-phase improvement project to provide for adequate capacity to meet the Citys needs, as well as to meet new and more stringent discharge standards and provide treatment reliability features. Even without the need to increase the capacity of the facility to allow for the final planned build out of the City, the costs for meeting these new discharge standards would have been expensive. Fortunately, achieving both tasks at the same time makes sense and saves money. Meeting new discharge standards does not mean that future capital improvement needs will not arise. The City of Thousand Oaks
