CONGRESSMAN PAUL COOK WORKS WITH MARINES, TWENTYNINE PALMS TO BUILD JOINT SEWER FACILITY

Congressman Paul Cook of Yucca Valley is getting out in front of what could be a potential poopy situation and advancing cooperation between the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center and the City of Twentynine Palms. The base’s water treatment facility is over 60 years old, and military officials say if a part of it fails, the whole system will fail. When the Combat Center began to explore building a new wastewater treatment plant, Cook worked with the Marine Corps and the city to determine what kind of funding and arrangement would work best to build a joint treatment plant. Under the current plan, the Marine Corps will build and operate a modular scalable water treatment plant on base to initially service base needs. In the long term, the city will take over the management of the facility and expand it to process the city’s waste water as well. Last fall, the Marine Corps signed a contract to plan and design the base’s water treatment facility. Once funding is appropriated from Congress, construction can begin on this modern and much-needed waste water treatment plant.