Redway CSD Provides Their Regulatory Decisions Leading to Car Wash Restrictions and Subsequent Closure by Owner

KC Delaney's Water Planet

KC Delaney’s Water Planet

Press release from from Redway CSD (Please remember that this is not neutral reporting but a press release from an interested party):

In 2021 the Redway CSD entered into settlement agreement and stipulation for Entry of Administrative Civil Liability Order, into and between the Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region prosecution team, and the Redway CSD, and is presented to the Regional Water Quality Control Board, for adoption as an Order by settlement pursuant to Government Code section 11415.60. This stipulated order resolves the violations reported by the Discharger in the amount of $30,000.

What this means is that from March 2014 through November 30th, 2018, the Redway CSD as a discharger, which discharges treated effluent into the South Fork of the Eel River and did not meet the WDR’s “Waste Discharge Requirements, under our NPDES permit or, “National Pollution Discharge Elimination System”, that we must follow. After we had entered into the agreement with the State, we started looking throughout town for I&I “inflow and infiltration”. We continue to search and abate the I&I issues throughout our sewer collection system in the town of Redway. In August 2022 the District reached out to the owner of the carwash [KC Delaney’s Water Planet] after we identified that it was tied directly into our sewer system with a baffled tank.

Because it was tied into the sewer system by past management, it allows direct runoff into our sewer system from all the bays. Our system is not designed to treat these wastes and debris. From these bays there is direct parking lot runoff of water, oils, sand, silt etc. Inflow and Infiltration directly affect the operation of all our lift stations, sewer collection system, and ultimately the Class 3 Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plant that we must maintain daily, monthly, and annually. What we asked the owner of the carwash to do was minimal. We asked that only the uncovered outdoor wash bay be taken offline in the winter or once we have hit 2” of rain. This is what is referred to as source control and is considered part of the District’s source control program, within the SSMP Sewer System Management Plan.

We found several other points of I&I throughout the sewer system once we obtained our camera inspection equipment, along with smoke testing equipment. The District must reduce the I&I by at least 50% within the next 2 years, this is the Districts target goal. Lastly, I would like to remind our ratepayers that Inflow and Infiltration cost the ratepayers money, and our staff will continue to fight the I&I as this is our job.

The California Regional Water Quality Control Board’s 2021 Settlement with Redway Community Services District:

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago

A real southern Humboldter never uses a car wash anyway. Muddy in winter dusty in summer.
A bucket of water and an old t-shirt and your good to go

DHW
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DHW
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

yes! If/when I wash my vehicles I like the water to do double duty by the water used at least going into the green areas of my yard.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago

It’s a crime that the RCSD put this good man out of business. I’d wager that he paid his very pricey water and sewer bills dependably, and on time, for many, many years. Most likely for much longer than ANYONE currently at RCSD has been employed there. He should actually sue them for performance, and for unfair business practices.

His extraordinary dependability should have been rewarded, not punished. He should be Grandfathered in. He is a very respectable, dependable guy, and his business, like so many others, was already struggling…

He maintained his business daily, and he ran a tight ship, keeping it very clean and presentable, against all “odds”… He faithfully and almost religiously dealt regularly with trash, dirt and all kinds of other crap and detritus, for little to no gain.

The man’s work ethic has always impressed me, because, through it all, he has ALWAYS been a very kind and well mannered Individual. Humble even. And that is very rare for anyone, especially a businessman…

Admirable qualities that we should all strive for.

For the RSCD to suggest that it’s out of the ordinary for crap to enter the sewer is simply ridiculous.

What do they want, eggs in their beer…???

That’s not Mickey’s job. He did his job, and did it very well. RCSD should have just sucked it up, and just did theirs…!!!

If RCSD had only maintained THEIR business regularly and dependably, like Mickey maintained his, there would have NEVER been a problem…

It’s not that RCSD maintenance personnel doesn’t also run their business respectably…

I’d say the same for it’s hierarchy except in this punitive instance, which I strongly disagree with, and I believe is wrongheaded.

They are very dependably responsive, but in their business, that maybe isn’t enough, they must also be proactive in their maintenance, not just reactive in the office. By the time a reaction is necessary in the field, or in the office, they have let the trouble go too far…

Upper level management is generally where things go sour.

And it’s probably their infrastructure that needs the upgrade, not the carwash’s.

The RCSD should have NEVER been the ones that Mickey EVER had to take any crap from.

He paid his dues, and he is an honorable man.

He is much too polite for them to have ever treated him with ANY disservice or disrespect.

This time, in my opinion, RCSD went too far.

SMDH.

Rant over.

Guess
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Guess
2 years ago
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I Totally agree he’s a really good guy, how much oil runoff and more bs comes from the 200 leaky beaters that park at the grocery store 200feet away every day or the trailer park or the shell station, hardly anyone washes their car in the winter anyways thanks for killing another sohum business jack asses.

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
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It sounds like the decision
to close was by the owner.

“ What we asked the owner of the carwash to do was minimal. We asked that only the uncovered outdoor wash bay be taken offline in the winter or once we have hit 2” of rain.”

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Jason
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Jason
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

That’s 25% of the operation, which is a death sentence in Garberville

Boffin
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2 years ago
Reply to  Jason

He could have built a cover?

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Boffin

Not without a permit…

Boffin
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2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

I’m confident he could get a permit to build a cover.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Boffin

Buy it.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Jason

He doesn’t have a clue.

is it really tho?
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is it really tho?
2 years ago
Reply to  Jason

he has to shut down the outside bay for the 2 rainiest months out of the year. the 2 months when he most likely has the least traffic. To say it’s taking away 25% of his operation for 2 months might be accurate but it’s surely not taking away 25% of the buisness income as the other 3 bays are rarely all full at the same time during these 2 months out of the year. all 3 bays would have to be full at all times and there would have to be one car that is turning away and deciding not to wash their car due to having to wait for one of the 3 other bays to open up. Not a likely scenario IMO.

he shut down to get the community up in arms and on his side, not because it’s cutting his income by 25%

they are pushing him to comply and he is punishing the community in return.

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The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago

Horse Pucky.

They want him to shut down the outside bay for the winter, (pretty vague), after 2″ of rain…

“We asked that only the uncovered outdoor wash bay be taken offline in the winter or once we have hit 2” of rain.”

The muddiest months might be the busiest months for the car wash, and the outside bay has easier access for bigger trucks, and easier access.

Officially, “Winter” is 12/21 thru 2/21, or 3 full months…

The after 2″ is pretty damn vague, but, “or once we have hit 2″ of rain” really muddles up any understanding of the regulations official parameters.

That could happen in early September…

WTF are the parameters, and how long must it be “offline”, and what does that even mean, he must plug the drain?

Or just turn off the sprayer…???

Loss of income is one thing, having to perform sewer plumbing disconnections and reconnections is a much bigger expense in time and money…

I don’t see whare RCSD offered to reduce his sewer fees commensurate to the significantly reduced service…

RCSD should have dealt with their other problems with their system’s I&I first, instead of punishing the car wash’s owner, as if he was sole cause of the I&I.

The car wash is the ONLY business I have heard was impacted by I&I regulations.

Impacting the car wash business should have been RCSD’s VERY LAST RESORT, dealing with THEIR I&I PROBLEMS…!!!

Impacting the car wash SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN RCSD’s FIRST RESORT dealing with THEIR I&I PROBLEMS…!!!

Just because it was easiest and fastest for RCSD to make Mickey sacrifice his business, than it would have been for RCSD to properly correct any I&I problems with the rest of THEIR system, to save THEM money, doesn’t make it right.

It makes it WRONG.

RCSD should have had to paid the fines, until they fixed THEIR SHIT, regardless of what it cost THEM.

RCSD impacting the car wash, or any other business for that matter, just because RCSD thinks it will be more cost effective for THEM, (RCSD), than it would be to properly maintain their own shit, is a lazy ass, fly by night, BULLSHIT BUSINESS PRACTICE.

In the long run, they will lose much more than $30,000, now that Mickey will no longer be paying for sewer and water services.

And that will represent a disservice to every single one of RCSD’s rate payers, who will have to “collectively” make up
the short fall.

This decision by RCSD will prove to be very short sighted, financially, IMNSHO.

BAD MOVE by their Board…!!!

RCSD should take the “C”, (It’s supposed to stand for “COMMUNITY”), right the eff out of its name…!!!

RCSD is now a misnomer…!!!

It should be changed to, “RSSSD”

“Redway Self Serving Sewer District”…

Their motto should be changed to, “You Pay While We Play”…

(So much for the rant being over…?‍♂️)

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
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How come the owner of the carwash cannot speak for themselves, with the documented facts and that goes for RCSD as well. Why are we only hearing from you? I am not reading anywhere in the statement or paperwork provided by RCSD that they are shutting down the carwash. In everything you and only you are saying is that RCSD has shut the carwash down, with nothing to back it up, only with alternative facts and assumptions, not based in facts only conjecture.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Ed, If I am not mistaken, there was already a RHBB article concerning the closure of the car wash, due to additional RCSD regulations. I searched for it with no luck, but I do have a request in for that information.

It was just recently, so it shouldn’t be hard to find.

But I’m kind of busy right now…

But why are you tripping so hard over my interest in this…???

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Finally found it…

I saw it on Facebook, not RHBB, but Lisa Music had given some information in the comments… (maybe that’s why I thought I remembered it from RHBB…)

My mistake…

Do you get Facebook, Ed…

I don’t, but my wife does.

She showed me the Facebook car wash closure, post, by Ella McFarland, on “Hey Garberville, what’s going on”group.

From January 23, 2024, I think…

Lots of information in the comments…

Even a few comments from our Supervisor, Michelle Bushnell…

Check it out…

https://www.facebook.com/groups/473436942760018/?ref=share&mibextid=KtfwRi

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Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
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Wow, your just all over the place, posting facebook photos, claiming facts when its just innuendo?

You never answered my question???:

How come the owner of the carwash cannot speak for themselves, with the documented facts and that goes for RCSD as well. Why are we only hearing from you? I am not reading anywhere in the statement or paperwork provided by RCSD that they are shutting down the carwash. In everything you and only you are saying is that RCSD has shut the carwash down, with nothing to back it up, only with alternative facts and assumptions, not based in facts only conjecture.

Innuendo-Jamila-Rajkotwala
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The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

??,

Pssst, Ed…

Wow. Your just all over the place, from the PV Project, to the Sweet Pond, posting memes, claiming facts, when you have just clearly mis read and /or misunderstood what I have written, and/or what someone else has…

(You missed the point..?)

Show me where I said…

” that RCSD has shut the carwash down”…

(with nothing to back it up, only with alternative facts and assumptions, not based in facts only conjecture.)

There is no such quote.

Here’s your quote…

“In everything you and only you are saying is that RCSD has shut the carwash down.”

(And don’t take anything I said out of context…)

As far as your “question”, about not hearing from the owner, contact himself if you please, Ed.

Don’t expect me to answer your questions, or answer your questions about someone else, concerning this issue..

That’s not my job, it’s yours.

I actually spoke with RCSD about this, Ed, did you…???

(Now BE SURE to answer MY question Ed… Right…???)

Thanks again for informing us that the PV project is not connected to the Sweet Pond on the South Fork Eel River… and for just assuming we didn’t already know that, “with nothing to back it up, only with alternative facts and assumptions, not based in facts only conjecture”. Like Farmer said,” you missed the point”, Ed, but you didn’t even believe him, the man himself, that you had clearly misunderstood, instead insisting you had “missed nothing”…

So, If you had actually talked to the car wash owner, or if you had read anything the owner wrote if he had written anything, I don’t really think that you would have surely even clearly understood IT, necessarily, or even believed him initially, nor even if he was to try and clarify anything for you that you likewise, may have misunderstood.

?‍♂️

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
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“It’s a crime that the RCSD put this good man out of business.”

“I actually spoke with RCSD about this, Ed, did you…???” NO!

Who did you talk to at RCSD and what did they say?

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Clearly what I said, and what you said that I said, were two very different things…

Let’s just leave it at I talked to them, but you didn’t.

Nuff said…

You care about the river, Ed, good for you.

So do I.

I care about the good people here as well, and that includes their businesses.

The owner of the carwash is one of the nicest people that I know.

I’ll just leave it at that.

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
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Then we clearly agree to disagree. If you do care about the South Fork Eel River, then you would care about what ends up being discharged into it. I care more about the river than the “good people” who pollute it.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

My feeling is that the owner of the carwash was scapegoated, and made an inappropriate example out of, in a sort of a RCSD self-serving, reverse-collective-punishment-scheme.

He is clearly not the sole cause of the problem, which as I understand it, is more of an excessive overall production of effluent, which then ends up having to be discharged into the river, thereby exceeding RCSD’s permitted volume.

But he HAS been singled out for discriminatory “treatment”…

I’d like to know just what percentage of the RCSD’s overall volume is addressed by this regulatory action, and just exactly how much of a percentage reduction in effluent discharge it will represent.

I highly doubt it’s much. Like “a drop in the bucket”…

I think it is less about the impurities, regardless of what kind, and/or how coarse they are…

WAY more could be accomplished, if everyone would just fix their leaky toilets, IMO, and that would represent a great deal of savings as far as corresponding river water withdrawals.

As far as the inflow and infiltration, There is no question in my mind that the RCSD has DEFERRED the necessary maintenance within THEIR system, which I am sure would represent a MUCH greater overall percentage of their necessary reduction, that would be THEIR responsibility, and their responsibility, ALONE, but they opted to put the onus on the carwash, because it made more fiscal sense.

And that is never ok, in my book.

Until the rest of the RCSD system is water tight, they have no room to talk as far as preventing Inflow and Infiltration.

They should focus on themselves, before they ever focus on anyone else, especially if it would make way more of a positive difference…

It’s a car wash, it doesn’t even have a public restroom, like many other businesses are required to have…

In other words, the percentage of actual shit in it’s discharge is slim to none…

The impurities that will no longer be washed off at the carwash, won’t just magically disappear…

They will just be dislodged elsewhere, and will then be able to flow freely into the river without any kind of treatment whatsoever.

If you think that this will end up benefitting the river, that’s a bit of pie in the sky, naive, and shortsighted thinking, in my opinion…

It won’t prevent the impurities from eventually reaching the river, it will just alter their course, and pollute the land as well.

This will not have an ecological benefit, it’s a decision from an economic standpoint only. And it’s coming from ONLY the RCSD’s economic standpoint, to be sure, and may very well backfire, in the long run.

Flush twice from now on, Redway, and send them some additional “gifts”…

Turn UP the VOLUME,

AND…

…Teach the RCSD who’s boss…

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The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

PS…

…On the hour, Every hour…

Like a secret code, with a strong, readable, forceful “pulse”…

Maybe they will get the message…

We will see who blows a gasket, then…

?

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Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Are you a RCSD Ratepayer?

Solar Bozo
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2 years ago
Reply to  Jason

25% for sure, but only around 25% of the year. That’s actually just over 6% of his business.

Wizard of Odds
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2 years ago
Reply to  Solar Bozo

Which is about the average profit margin for a small business

Boffin
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2 years ago
Reply to  Wizard of Odds

Really? not in my decades of experience

an only mouse
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an only mouse
2 years ago
Reply to  Boffin

boffin eh? it fits
why the hell you wondering about a member of our community like he’s a stranger from far away doing something to you
a man has made a business decision and it relates to this water/sewer regulation that the state is tied up in.
im reminded of the big reggae breakup meeting way back when, when people said things that split the community right in half.
I have that same knot in my stomach.
this is a just awful way to treat a guy, speculating about him instead of giving him a call. or a messenger.
all of yall should stop this imo

well . . .
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well . . .
2 years ago
Reply to  Jason

Only if the other three bays are always full. So no its not 25% of the business.

Lynn H
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Lynn H
2 years ago
Reply to  well . . .

Have never seen it full except in the summer

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

You don’t really know of what you speak, do you…???

Do you know the man…???

Have you ever, even once, spoken to him…???

Do you know his very nice family…???

Have you ever even been to that carwash, put in a handful of your two bits, and used it…???

Do you even know what you are talking about…???

( I’d wager the answers would be as follows “No”, “No”, “No”, “No”, “No”, and, finally, “No”…!!!)

( I’ll bet that I got “?”…)

Do you think that for a business like this one, that operated on the thinnest of margins, even during the busiest and best of times in recent years, that this heavy handed regulation by the RSCD represented the last straw that broke the business’ financial back, dealing it it’s final death blow…

(Hint: The answer is “YES”, but you have, of course, chosen, “NO”.)

Typical.

They wanted him to shut down his busiest, most popular bay, (“covered” in a previous article), which is CLEARLY not something “minimal”…

Captain Obvious,

Why would you take RCSD’s word, over the proprietor’s word, concerning whether their demand to limit, and the additional unwarranted regulation of, his business, was in fact “minimal”…

The RCSD is WRONG.

And, therefore, because you have naively taken ONLY their word for it, after without so much as even the slightest consideration for the most relevant party’s testimony, (the proprietor), you are also equally wrong…

Obviously, due to the nature of the regulation, “keeping in mind” the “nature” of RCSD’s business, it would be simply child’s play to easily conclude, for anyone in their right mind, that it’s RCSD that’s totally full of shit, along with anyone that believes them over the proprietor.

?‍♂️

Do the math.

Then times it by 100.

Sometimes, you forget to do that…

However, you aren’t even 1% right this time…

You are 100% wrong.

No amount of multiplication can correct it this time.

The solution is to subtract your errant answer, and then add to the result, (0), the opposite of your mistake.

Then, and only then, will you be correct.

It was definitely the last straw, and gave him no other choice, but to shut down.

RCSD revenue will suffer, accordingly, as it should.

The balance of ratepayer’s will have to absorb the hit, and pick up the difference.

A poor choice by RCSD.

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Don’t blow a gasp dude..

Ernie Branscomb Guest
Ernie Branscomb
1 minute ago
There is probably more than meets the eye here.
Running a business in Southern Humboldt is no longer economically feasible. He probably was only keeping it open out of dedication to his community and loyal customers. It doesn’t take take much to say “To hell with it”.

And it’s time you let the other issue go.

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The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

Ernie, unsurprisingly is absolutely correct.

However, that clearly doesn’t support your argument.

And, it certainly doesn’t mean that Ernie thinks that the loss of the use of Mickey’s most popular car wash bay was something “minimal”…

Do you think it does…???

(Apparently you do…)

Wrong again…!!!

(You are on quite a roll, though…)

You see, (or maybe you don’t), just because it wouldn’t have taken much to put a guy the out of business certainly doesn’t mean that TOO MUCH wouldn’t have done it…

Understand…???

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

gasket

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

??,

It was missing a piece…

Too much pressure…???

Minimal pressure…???

??????

Oh well,

Probably still had something to do with all that inflammatory Sam Harris, the shit stirrer, nonsense.

Might as well blame Hamas for that, too.

Because EVERYTHING is Hamas’s fault…

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Go Broke in southern humboldt
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Go Broke in southern humboldt
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

The AEE Building in Redway across from the radio station had to put a filter and septic system in for the parking lot for oil and run off and install curbs and walkways. All required because of building changing to multi unit building. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for an existing building that now sits empty.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

Do you mean a gasket…??

Which other issue…???

There must be 100, not just 1…

??????

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
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Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be
Lennon/McCartney

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

??,

? Goosfraba…

-Inuit Eskimo-

????????

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Yes, you should. ?

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The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

??,

???…

“Goosfraba is actually a word that Eskimos use to calm their children down.”

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

And did you?

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

??

Yes, that is how I used it.

(The proper response would be “woosah!”…)

?

…Sound it out…

?

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Did you calm down?

Boffin
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2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

No

Seabreeze
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Seabreeze
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

It’s pretty disappointing there isn’t a working car wash any longer. I appreciated that business….

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Seabreeze

I appreciated that business as well, and I respect the owner.

Now we will have a dirtier, dustier, ghost town…

J,B
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J,B
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

So, Im curious if that means oil and phosphates from soaps etc have been washing into a system that has never been able to deal with them? For many years?

J,B
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J,B
2 years ago
Reply to  J,B

Which is obviously on rcsd

Briceland4ever
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Briceland4ever
2 years ago

So now we get no car wash and our town looks even worse?
How does this help anyone? This seems like a personal issue.
The bay in question is most of his business. It’s the only bay I like using because of the size of my equipment. Shutting down this bay shuts down the car wash……
This is a slap in the face of everyone who lives here.
Rcsd and The water control board seems to want to control all of our lives.
We should be helping small bis stay here not shut down.

Ernie Branscomb
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Ernie Branscomb
2 years ago

There is probably more than meets the eye here. Running a business in Southern Humboldt is no longer economically feasible. He probably was only keeping it open out of dedication to his community and loyal customers. It doesn’t take take much to say “To hell with it”.

Not so long ago, SoHum provided the economic engine that provided considerable wealth to the County. We were left to provide our own resources, volunteer fire departments, schools, medical clinics, etc, etc. The county got in the habit of letting us provide for ourselves while still paying taxes for services we were not getting.

It seems that the only thing we get from the County anymore is fees, fines, rules and admonishments. We may have made a big mistake when we didn’t form Sequoia County when we had the chance.

It is distressing to see the millions, nay, billions of dollars in grants and subsidies pouring to northern Humboldt. Nothing so far has trickled down to SoHum. They say that “a rising tide lifts all boats”. Sohum can’t afford a boat, we are close to drowning.

Who’s ass do I have to kiss to get Garberville’s streets paved? I have heard for years and years that it is “in the process”. “it is already funded”, Strangely, the money disappears, or there is greater priorities.

I will spare you all the other complaints that I have.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago

Yep, in the County’s infinite wisdom, they recently paved Redway’s main drag, over top of pavement that was still in perfectly fine, smooth shape, while Garberville’s main drag is rougher than a cob.

Go figure.

Local Local
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Local Local
2 years ago

So many valid points Ernie ! Sure do wonder where all the $$$$ paid to the county by numerous cannabis farmers went ?‍♀️ Have not seen one improvement!

EAGLE 20
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EAGLE 20
2 years ago

Ahh man, how am I supposed to wash my grow dozers now?

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  EAGLE 20

Up at RCSD, across from Sylvandale’s Nursery,…

Avid
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Avid
2 years ago
Reply to  EAGLE 20

Use the eagle 20 sprayer bruh

EAGLE 20
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EAGLE 20
2 years ago
Reply to  Avid

I would, but I think I left it at your mom’s house.

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  EAGLE 20

Drive it into the River.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago

Darn it! That’s a valuable, local business and service. I prefer to wash my car before I drive into the City (and beyond). Or my truck after it’s been sitting out a while.
If the cost of repair is relatively minimal and if the business kinda paid for itself, maybe it should be bought by and made into a community asset / not for profit. Could happen if at least one person wants to lead the effort.

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

Good project for TRG.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

I may say “Duh!” after you answer, but what does TRG stand for?

Ernie Branscomb
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Ernie Branscomb
2 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

The REAL Guest

Ben Round
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Ben Round
2 years ago

Ohh. (Not ‘Duh’). Thanks Ernie.

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
2 years ago

So I went to the RCSD website, there was a Special Board meeting yesterday (Feb 2nd) at 11 am in the RCSD Office. Does anyone know if the owner of the carwash was invited or attended this meeting?

https://redwaycsd.org/documents/1114/2024.02.02_Special_Board_Meeting_Agenda.pdf

In reading this RCSD Press Release, it gives the impression this has been an on-going problem and I take it the owner of the carwash never fixed the problem? Does anyone know if the owner of the carwash was sent any kind of formal letter from RCSD requesting the carwash fix this problem? Has the owner of the carwash tried to communicate with the RCSD Board or General Manager?

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Well of course nobody know the full story, but by god they are going to stamp their feet and rage about it.
Has anyone actually talked to the owner to see what he has to say?

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Penguinn
Member
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

The outrage is the whole point. Facts usually just get in the way.

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  Penguinn

And this storm shall pass and it’s on to the next windmill.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

“Has anyone actually talked to the owner to see what he has to say?”

-Tru Matters-

__________________________________

Have you…???

I haven’t talked to him recently, but I’ve definitely talked to him…

I have spoken to his sister more recently…

Maybe you’ve heard of her…

Ring any bells…???

Or maybe you’ve heard of one of her employers…???

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tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago

How much water does a car wash use anyway, because people are to lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a big sponge to clean their vehicle?

The Real Guest
Guest
The Real Guest
2 years ago

Kym,

Was there a previous article concerning the car wash closing…???

If so, I can’t seem to locate it…

tru matters
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tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Her e-mail address is at the bottom of the page.
She used to spend Saturday afternoons with her mom.

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The Real Guest
Guest
The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

I bet you excel at Trivial Pursuit…

tru matters
Guest
tru matters
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

Sorry I forgot you don’t know how to e-mail.

The Real Guest
Guest
The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  tru matters

Wrong again…

(You forgot…???, or, you remembered…?????)

I can e-mail..

I’m just not one to send her needless, useless e-mails.

She was obviously very busy today, in hindsight, on her family day, working on the update on the missing woman being found…

I had a very strong feeling that the missing woman been found this afternoon, one way or another, before it was ever reported…

Because when I went to go look for her, nobody else was looking for her any longer…

I could only surmise one reason for that…

…That she had been located…

That hunch turned out to be true…

But if you feel the need to e-mail Kym…, that’s your business.

It’s not like you were out actually trying to find the missing woman, were you…???

I always try to help find missing people when I can…

Lots of them…

I have actually succeeded locating more than one missing person still alive and well, and made contact with their family… At least a few I’ve found deceased, (but only one that was reported missing), that I wasn’t even looking for when I came across them…

It’s been a while though… I don’t get out and about as much as I used to…

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Guest

I found were I saw it…

On Facebook, not RHBB, sorry about the mix-up…

From January 23, 2024…

Lots of information in the comments…

https://www.facebook.com/groups/473436942760018/?ref=share&mibextid=KtfwRi

Muddy
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Muddy
2 years ago

What if, as a community, we tried to find a way to keep the carwash open? If the gripe is that bay is uncovered, what’s the cheapest, easiest, hopefully not requiring arduous and expensive permitting process, solution? Does a cover have to be an expensive, permanent structure that impedes the ease of access everyone uses that bay for larger vehicles, for? Or can it be a quick and cheap “temporary” awning or shade sail structure that sends water away from that area? Is there a filtration option that could be installed? Lord knows there’s tons of grow grade water filtration equipment around now.

We can all sit bemoaning the loss of another amenity and pointing fingers around, talking on issues I don’t think any of us but the owner and the board really know everything about… or we can maybe find a solution to a problem that affects the community.

Heart
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Heart
2 years ago

Sad loss of a vital business, that end bay has been used by many hard working people in their daily business ….. meanwhile how much Pharmaceutical products , birth control hormones, anti depressants etc get flushed and pass through the treatment systems and back into the watershed and then……. ?
I understand that they are not tested for nor removed , anyone know?

R.I.P. – K.C. Delaney’s Water Planet

Mickey, thanks you for many years of providing your services to the community !