Malibu residents including Barbra Streisand face having SEWER constructed close to their mansions

Wealthy residents successful California's ritzy Malibu vicinity - including Barbra Streisand, Cher and Beyonce - whitethorn soon person a sewer enactment built adjacent their cliffside mansions arsenic metropolis officials see a melodramatic reversal of a decades-old ban.

For much than 30 years, Malibu residents person fought bony and nail to support sewers and large-scale developments retired of their exclusive enclave.

But now, the metropolis has softly considered a $124 cardinal underground strategy that would snake on the Pacific Coast Highway and link to Los Angeles' Hyperion Treatment Plant, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The large connection comes aft a January wildfire destroyed 327 homes on a astir four-mile coastal stretch. All of the destroyed homes relied connected aging septic systems.  

On apical of this, h2o prime officials person continuously complained that Malibu's aging septic systems don't successfully power sewage.

They accidental pathogens are inactive capable to seep into groundwater and yet contaminate section creeks and Santa Monica Bay.

The contamination has occasionally adjacent caused the Surfrider Beach unsafe for swimmers and surfers. 

City leaders judge it's clip for a cleaner and much modern solution. 

They purpose to instrumentality a $124 cardinal underground sewer enactment that would transportation quality discarded to Los Angeles' Hyperion Treatment Plant successful El Segundo.

Malibu Public Works Director Rob DuBoux estimated the outgo could perchance summation with completion taking implicit 5 years.     

If approved, the sewer would snake its mode done a agelong of coastline agelong seen arsenic the crown jewel of Malibu - location to immoderate of America's astir costly existent property successful the country,  including the homes of Kim Kardashian, and Jay Z and Beyonce. 

Homeowners would beryllium charged astir $269,000 per property, which is inactive perchance little than the $500,000 positive galore look to rehabilitate failing septic systems damaged successful the fire.  

The connection would bounds the sewer to serving lone existent homes and businesses successful the pain portion - astir from Topanga Canyon Boulevard to Carbon Canyon Road - excluding hotels and flat buildings. 

While the city's leaders and residents stay beardown against uncontrolled growth, immoderate accidental a cautiously designed sewer mightiness really support the situation portion preventing quality discarded from flowing into the ocean 

'I deliberation we should bash everything we tin to enactment the sewer successful [and] fig retired however to get it paid for,' Councilman Steve Uhring said astatine a caller nationalist hearing. 'That's what Malibu is about. We are expected to support the situation [and] that's the champion mode to bash it.'

Environmental idiosyncratic Mark Gold of the Natural Resources Defense Council called 'a situation that presents an opportunity.'

'You tin physique facilities successful a mode that is not growth-inducing,' Gold told the outlet. 'And you whitethorn besides beryllium capable to heighten h2o proviso and occurrence resilience.'

When the archetypal Malibu City Council took bureau successful 1991, it instantly scrapped Los Angeles County plans for sewers.

Most metropolis leaders since past person allowed small improvement that would endanger the community's character.