The Los Olivos Community Service District (CSD) received a $75,000 grant to complete a third-party study to determine the most efficient and cost-effective wastewater options for Los Olivos, protect the groundwater, and preserve our quaint town’s history and open spaces.
POLO, a local nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to protect Los Olivos’s rural character and the Santa Ynez Valley, threw a much-needed lifeline to the CSD that was short on cash and seemed to be fresh out of inspiration.
The CSD will have spent more than $1 million taxpayer money in five years without constructing adequate test wells or commencing work on an appropriate design for a wastewater collection and treatment system.