Posted on 06/28/2009 7:42:18 AM PDT by TheDon
A landmark desalination project gained final approval from regulators Wednesday, bringing the promise of an entirely new supply of water to San Diego County ---- and perhaps one of many in water-short California.
But opposition to the plant, including legal action, continues. And the company that wants to build the $300 million plant in coastal Carlsbad still needs to raise the money.
On Wednesday, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control board unanimously approved a permit for the plant. It had already considered the proposal twice this year.
The permit approves a plan by Poseidon Resources Corp. to reduce the plant's environmental impact on ocean life, especially young fish. It is to be situated next to the Encina Power Station.
Poseidon's six-year struggle for approval has been closely watched around the nation as a bellwether of desalination's prospects. All told, the plant has been considered at 14 hearings before various agencies.
If built, the plant would produce 50 million gallons of water a day, making it the largest in the Western Hemisphere. That represents about 9 percent of the water used in San Diego County. The cities of Carlsbad and Oceanside and seven local water agencies have contracted to buy water from the plant.
The agencies are: Valley Center Municipal Water District, Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District, Sweetwater Authority, Rainbow Municipal Water District, Vallecitos Water District, Santa Fe Irrigation District and the Olivenhain Municipal Water District.
Construction is expected to begin by year's end, said Scott Maloni, a vice president of Poseidon, which is to build and own the plant. It is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2011.
Maloni said Poseidon has received multiple financing proposals.
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This will raise the salt density in the ocean and kill millions of unborn fist giving the killer sharks nothing to eat but women and children surfers.
At 0.1 kWh/gal of water output, the plant will require 2 MW power input. Where is the power going to come from? We are not allowed to burn coal in California and Sacramento banned the importation of coal-generated power from other states. I guess that leaves more windmills.
Of course it makes good sense. .. which is why the enviro-nazis will pitch fits and find some stupid reason to sue to stop it.
I lived in GTMO when the CO activated the desalination plant there (and had a big ceremony about cutting the water line from communist Cuba). It’s been fine all these years. (it was sometime in 1963 if I recall correctly).
There’s no reason that SoCal should be dependant on the NorCal snow packs for their water. The desalination plants should have been built years ago imho.
Interesting that the cities/water districts closest to the proposed site do not seem to have signed up. Maybe they know that there is a sewage plant about a mile up the coast!!
My response to the protesters would be “Either you don’t live her, so !@#$ off”, or “Your presence here is causing the water demand we are seeking to supply, so if you don’t like it, !@#$ off somewhere else.”
Yeah, Sacremento buys wind power from west VA.
Or, more accuratly, they pay WVA for wind power, and WVA immediately swaps its wind poer to AZ for coal power, which is what CA gets.
IOW, CA is taxing itself to make WVA wealthy.
Idiots.
Of course the greenies continue to fight it. Can't have something that might actually help out the state can we?
If we wanted to, if the courts had real judges instead of the metrosexual wimps on sitting on the benches today, they would clear the path for small nukes such as used in aircraft carriers and submarines to be built and running off the coast, using them mainly for desalinization. CA would be running wet with water. However, not much chance of that happening. Why the hell they can't just build a desalinization plant without all the BS is beyond me(actually it is not but it is very frustrating and the next step in making sure we all have decent lives in the immediate future will probably not be a nice step).
nukes, lots more nukes...
Agreed.
Idiots voting for idiots. It has a nice symmetry to it...
Hmmm... I think you are on to something.
Is your alternate reality accepting relocation applications?
Haven’t you heard, nukes are the new green energy! No “carbon footprint”! :-)
Yep.
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