Readers respond

The answer is the city has already spoken. [The city council] is

unanimously against the waiver.

The waiver allows 50% primary treatment of the effluent sewage to be

dumped into the ocean.

The Clean Water Act demands full secondary treatment of sewage. Full

secondary removes 98% of the solids of the sewage before discharging it

into the ocean. Secondary treatment also greatly reduces pathogens, which

are bacteria and viruses, and enhances further processing to reclaim and

reuse the resulting fresh water.

What is needed now, is for all of us reading this who have friends and

family in surrounding cities to have their city councils vote against the

waiver.

All that is needed is 13 cities to vote against it and the waiver will

be toast. Seal Beach and Huntington Beach have already voted no and

Newport Beach is voting no on Sept. 25.

The mayors of Garden Grove, Westminster, Los Alamitos, Buena Park,

Fullerton, Brea, Yorba Linda, Cerritos, Anaheim, Tustin, Santa Ana,

Placentia, Orange, Villa Park, La Palma, Cypress, Fountain Valley and La

Habra should be contacted by their citizens and asked to vote against the

waiver.

Full secondary is what we have to demand the Orange County Sanitation

District to go to in compliance with the Clean water Act.

Eileen Murphy

Huntington Beach