BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/FOX58) — A 50-year-old treatment plant in Stallion Springs has been in need of improvements in order to meet state compliance.
SIMILAR: Urgency for Stallion Springs community services district to upgrade old wastewater plant
With a deadline approaching in 2025, the report says that the Stallion Springs Community Services District doesn’t have enough funds to make changes, but then submitted a grant application.
They were able to receive more than $10,000 dollars to make improvements.
Michael Fox, a resident up in Stallion Springs, says there are more issues that aren’t being resolved.
“There’s 380 homes around the sewer lines here, and none of those people knew anything about the problems with the sewer treatment plant until the grand jury came out here,” said Fox. “ The other problem is that we have crumbling streets and leaking water mains also,” he added.
Although this wasn’t mentioned in the Grand Jury Report, residents are speaking out about it as it worsens.
According to Fox, Stallion Springs has approximately 20 water leaks per day.
“They’re doing everything they can to encourage people to come here and build houses here, and what they’re not doing is they’re not telling people, these prospective buyers that are coming up here that we have a problem with they water mains, and the problems with the road, and the sewer treatment plant that’s not working right.”
On Saturday, a meeting was held by the district to discuss the increase residents will see for lot fees.
Fox, who was at the meeting, said the district plans to form a street maintenance district to fund for the improvements by increasing the fees per lot up to $200 dollars per year for the 2024/2025 tax roll.
According to Proposition 218, which restricts how government agencies raise funds, it can notify the public about these increases.
The district manager of the Stallion Springs Community said if this new district fails to form, the streets conditions may jut get worse.