Low-Flow Toilet Drawing Today

A drawing will be held today at Camarillo City Hall to select a community group to help distribute 400 ultra-low-flush toilets next month.

The selected organization will earn $15 per distributed toilet--up to a maximum $6,000--paid by the city through a grant from the Metropolitan Water District of Los Angeles.

Mayor Charlotte Craven will conduct the drawing at 10 a.m. The four groups in the running are the Meadowlark League, Moose Lodge, Pleasant Valley Lions and representatives of the Camarillo High School freshman and senior classes.

Each group has agreed to provide at least 15 volunteers to assist city crews and homeowners distribute toilets on a first-come, first-served basis. Toilets will be distributed from 8 a.m. to noon Jan. 24 in the City Hall parking lot.

On Feb. 7, the group will collect old toilets at the same location and take them to a factory where they will be ground up and used for road base.

“The city has participated in an ultra-low-flow-toilet program for years,” Craven said. “But before we had a very complicated system where you had to buy your own toilet, limiting the number of people involved because some of them couldn’t afford to buy one.”

Residents need only come to City Hall Jan. 24 to obtain up to two toilets and then return their old toilets Feb. 7.

“Every flush will save about 4 1/2 gallons of water,” Craven said.

For more information, call 388-5373.