The Agoura Hills Diversion Project will eliminate polluted  urban water flows entering our open waters during dry weather months, between April 15-October 15 each year.   The project will also capture a tenth of an inch of storm water as well, during these conditions the 10 distributed diversion structures will divert the most polluted water as rains wash oils and other pollutants into the system early in a storm event.    

All of the diverted water under dry weather or “first flush” conditions will flow to the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District’s (LVMWD) Tapia Water Reclamation Facility where it is treated to a recycled water standard and used in our community for landscape irrigation.  More importantly when LVMWD completes it’s PURE WATER project, this water will be go through an advanced water purification system, becoming drinking water.  This Best Management Practice (BMP) is being used throughout the County, but currently not in our region.

What that means is that Agoura Hills, with this project, stands to achieve Governor Newsom’s #1 Initiative in the California Water Supply Strategy; “Develop New Water Supplies”.  It begins to close the region’s gap in unused treatment capacity at existing treatment plants.  The project is also extremely cost efficient because it leverages existing infrastructure.   This established practice is a simple and extremely effective solution to meeting our regional permit requirements, improving the health of our open waters, and to defend against the increased severity of regional droughts.

The project has secured 50% of the construction funding through the California Department of Water Resources and is currently seeking Measure W funding.