Redway CSD Moves February Meeting, Shares Infrastructure Updates
Press release from the Redway Community Services District:
Redway Community Services District has moved its regular Business Meeting to the 26th of February 2025 for this month. The public can find the Agenda on our Website redwaycsd.org and it has been posted on our bulletin board at the District office. The public is welcome to attend at 5:30 pm at the District office located in Redway at 3168 Redwood Dr. There are some project updates that I would like to share with our ratepayers as well. The District will soon be going out to bid with the Redway Emergency Water Supply and storage Grant that we secured. This grant includes updates at the Water Treatment Plants Multimedia Filter’s, new Automated water meters that are currently being installed, which is being self-performed by District staff to reduce cost, and then the replacement of the old Rusk Storage Tank, next to the newer tank located up on Rusk Lane above the Mateel.
The Redway CSD has recently purchased new sewer cleaning equipment, and staff have received the necessary training required to operate this equipment throughout the town’s Sanitary Sewer. In the past the District has contracted out this work, which has become far too expensive. Through budgeting and research, we were able to obtain the right combo truck fit for our town. The District has the CCTV equipment already for sewer and customer lateral inspection on the District’s side of the sewer, the Town’s mainlines that the Residential laterals are connected to it. It is important for our ratepayer to understand that we are experiencing failure within our sewer collections system.
This infrastructure failure is due to root intrusion, separations, and breaks in the existing sewer line. The root intrusion is found within the customer laterals, we have even identified rain gutters that have been plumbed into residential sewer cleanout on the customers property. Once we have cleaned sections of the sewer mains within our Redway neighborhoods, we will then move in with our sewer camera inspection equipment to identify where the I&I “Inflow and Infiltration” into the sanitary sewer is coming from, and then letter will go out to these addresses for correction.
Other news: we currently have a Capital Improvements project up on West Coast drive near Redwoods Rural, this is a mainline and Hydrant Replacement project, which sunsets at the end of this year. We will also be replacing most of the existing Dry Barrel Hydrants to wet barrel hydrants throughout town as well, due to the age, and the operational condition of the old dry barrels. We continue to move forward with Wastewater Plant Improvements Planning grant secured through the SWRCB and are now at 90% design.
If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach us at the office at (707) 923-3101.
Cody Cox
GM
Redway CSD
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“replacing most of the existing Dry Barrel Hydrants to wet barrel hydrants”
In the early seventies Redway replaced all the wet barrel hydrants with dry barrel due to the fact that they froze and broke during the “coming ice age and global cooling.”
I like wet barrel hydrants better because they are idiot proof. Dry barrel hydrants will float out of the ground if they are not turned completely opened when in use. Plus dry barrels don’t have separate valves for outlets either, very inconvenient.
This is a great move for firefighters and foolish move for rate-payers if we have another hard freeze.
Interesting
“The public can find the Agenda on our Website redwaycsd.org and it has been posted on our bulletin board at the District office.”
As of this post, the agenda for this Board meeting is not posted on the RCSD website:
https://redwaycsd.org/agendas
“We continue to move forward with Wastewater Plant Improvements Planning grant secured through the SWRCB and are now at 90% design.”
I can’t wait to read the revised and recirculated CEQA document for this “Wastewater Plant Improvement Project”, since in the last one, RCSD forgot to include the construction of a new 300 foot arial suspension bridge 50 feet above and over Leggett Creek, that carries a raw sewer line from the Eel River Con Camp to the RCSD waste treatment plant and an outgoing treated wastewater line that crosses Leggett Creek that ends up in 3 percolation ponds north of the wastewater treatment plant along the west side of the South Fork Eel River.