Rainbow MWD quitclaims sewer easement to Palomar College

The construction of the infrastructure for the Palomar North Education Center and Horse Creek Ridge developments included the construction of a new sewer main to connect with existing mains on Horse Ranch Creek Road, and the sewer easement Rainbow had for the main which was replaced is now owned without restriction by the Palomar Community College District.

The authorization of a quitclaim deed for the sewer easement was approved on a 5-0 Rainbow board vote Dec. 4.

“It’s just standard procedure when we don’t need an easement to quitclaim it back,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy said.

The Palomar Community College District was responsible for the construction of the public water and sewer mains through the campus property. The sewer main connects to and conveys flow from the Pala Mesa sewer under Interstate 15 to the recently completed sewer main underneath Horse Ranch Creek Road. The sewer’s tie-in with the Pala Mesa sewer was completed Oct. 8.

“There was an old sewer line that was replaced,” Kennedy said.

That new sewer main allowed the 12-inch sewer line east of I-15 to be abandoned. The old sewer line was a significant source of inflow and infiltration to the sewer system in the area served by the Horse Creek Lift Station, so the replacement of the older sewer line decreases the peak weather flows for that system and allows for more efficient use of the district’s sewer infrastructure.

The new sewer also made the easement for the old sewer unnecessary.

“It’s just an unused easement,” Kennedy said.

The quitclaim allows the Palomar Community College District to build structures or a parking lot on the land where Rainbow had held the easement.