California’s Lake Arrowhead Community Services District is located in the San Bernardino Mountains, 90 miles east of Los Angeles. The resort area is the picture of tranquility on the surface, but its water and wastewater infrastructure requires a constant effort to maintain balance, the biggest challenge facing the system.
The topography of the area made it a perfect site for the construction of a dam and the creation of Lake Arrowhead, which sits optimally at 5,270 feet above sea level and provides the district with water. That same topography, however, has presented a challenge for the district’s sewer system, which operates




















