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Ponds at Cabrillo Business Park
updated: Aug 07, 2012, 8:14 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

Does anyone know what is up with the sprinkler-fed, shallow, lined settling ponds at the corner of Hollister and Los Carneros on the Cabrillo Business Park property?

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COMMENT 305610	2012-08-07 08:25 PM
compaction?
COMMENT 305628P	2012-08-07 11:38 PM
Deckers is building
COMMENT 305632P	2012-08-08 01:08 AM
Funny, I noticed it today. Thought it looked like a rice paddy :-).
COMMENT 305646P	2012-08-08 07:18 AM
Deep pours of concrete for foundations require slow curing. Concrete curing is, Yes, Deckers new campus bldg beginning.
COMMENT 305648	2012-08-08 07:18 AM
Funny how folks ask the butcher about what's going on at the green grocer's. From the comments it may appear that some hardscaping is going on. In the installation of landscape ponds the holes are dug then covered with a liner and rocks are brought in to hold the liner in place and edge the pond.
COMMENT 305651	2012-08-08 07:37 AM
What an absurd place to build a building...dahh... Good luck on paying attention while working and H.R., Godspeed on the workers comp cases that will pile up on you for stress.
COMMENT 305672	2012-08-08 08:09 AM
There hasn't been any concrete pouring there, only site grading and prep. The use of sprinklers and lined ponds to make standing water appears as though it's wastewater treatment. Goleta Sanitary has stopped biosolids operations during construction, according to its website. I wonder it the two are related? It sure looks like wastewater treatment to me.
COMMENT 305687	2012-08-08 08:35 AM
The original plans were to create vernal pools in one section of the property. Perhaps this has to do with that.
COMMENT 305793	2012-08-08 11:00 AM
@790 because that's what wastewater treatment (specifically for biosolids) looks like! Why else would you have square shallow lined pools -- the lining is to keep whatever is in the pools from leaching into the groundwater -- that are being fed by a sprinkler system -- not something efficient that would not evaporate half the water, but a sprinkler system that would specifically aerate the water which you would want if you were trying to dry it out and create biosolids. I don't know, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....Vernal pools are natural wetlands that would never ever ever ever (got that?) use a liner or have perfectly square containment systems with a sprinkler system! If you commute to work on a bike past the area I highly recommend wearing a mask until we learn what's in the pools/water.
COMMENT 305806	2012-08-08 11:20 AM
From the PIO, City of Goleta - This is part of the building for Cabrillo Business Park, and, more specifically the Deckers' buildings. It isn't landscaping but part of the process to cure the foundations.
COMMENT 305831	2012-08-08 12:01 PM
Thanks for clearing that up! @587 the northwest corner of the property contains hopefully still extant vernal pools that the Dept. of Fish and Game tried for years to acquire because it is contiguous with the DFG-protected wetlands between the Cabrillo property and UCSB family housing. No need to create new wetlands, mother nature did, we just have to keep them from ruin.

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