Tiburon sanitary district considers overhaul of odor-control system
Jim Miller said his Centro West Street home might have the best view in town, if not the world. This year, he said, it has also come with the smell of the sewage plant on Paradise Drive.
Sanitary District No. 5 of Marin, which runs the plant, is weighing what to do about the 21-year-old system meant to contain the odor. Its choices run from $1 million to $2 million to rehabilitate the equipment to roughly $11 million over 20 years to replace it.
The district’s board voted unanimously Sept. 17 to accept the Carollo Engineers report laying out the options and directed District Manager Tony Rubio to work with the district’s capital improvement program committee on budgeting and implementation. Rubio’s staff report recommended that the work focus on rehabilitating the current system. No project, budget or construction timeline has been approved.
“We’ve got an odor-control system that works, but with any big project, you have to prioritize funding — how much and how fast,” Rubio said. “It goes back to committee for figuring out all those loose ends.”
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