Posted on 09/03/2015 9:12:36 PM PDT by grundle
CARLSBAD, Calif. - North America’s largest seawater desalination plant is ahead of schedule.
Construction on the $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant is completed. Inspectors are now putting the plant through its paces to make sure it works.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Poseidon Water spokeswoman Jessica Jones.
The idea for the plant is almost 20 years old. As of Wednesday, the plant was desalinating 50-million gallons of water a day into clean drinking water. The water will be dumped back into the ocean until the plant passes inspection.
Poseidon Water built the plant and reached an agreement with IDE Americas to operate the plant. IDE built three of the four desalination plants in Israel. Those plants supply the Middle Eastern country with 60 percent of its water.
They’ll be operating the largest plant in North America and the first on the West Coast.
The Carlsbad Desalination Plant is contractually obligated to open November 26.
However, IDE Americas CEO Mark Lambert said Wednesday, “We are perhaps a little bit ahead of schedule….Somewhere in the October time frame we expect to be pushing water up the hill for drinking water.”
Eight powerful pumps will push 54-million gallons of water 10 miles uphill every day. The water will be dumped into a San Diego County Water Authority aqueduct.
It’s enough water for 300,000 people every day.
Lambert said they are already looking at ways to expand the plant’s production an additional five million gallons a day.
“We’re thinking about how to do that, when we would do it, and where it would go,” he said.
At the same time, plans are being drawn for California’s second desalination plant in Huntington Beach.
“I think the next one won’t take 20 years,” said Lambert.
We all know what is coming next.
It’ll all get washed away by The Great Flood of 2015.
They already boycott bathing.
Good news.
You’d expect that... unless you live in California, and are familiar with the jackasses who run the state from their ivory towers in Sacramento.
“...Eight pumps will push 54-million gallons of water 10 miles uphill every day...”
Sounds like a good job for a nuclear power plant.
They have San Onofre nearby.
Oh, wait... they shut that down.
Never mind.
Unless you are an illegal, then it's free... access to clean drinking water is a human right, you know.
I'll give it a year before some environmental loon files suit and another six months after that before an Obama appointed judge orders it shutdown.
10 miles uphill? Doggone it....BUT! There’s a downhill side, right? EASY! Just put some turbine generators in the pipes on the down hill side and let the 54 MG/day run it!......../s
Even it the system was closed pipe all the way from the DESAL plant to the consumer, some butt wipe econut would find some kind of pipe rat, slug or amoebic slime in the pipes that would be ‘endangered’ and get it banned.
They’re actually Luddites and human haters is what they are.
I’m waiting for someone to scream “Your sucking all the water out of the ocean”.
The water cycle is too hard a concept for most leftists.
Well, this will also lower the ocean water level near there. Since the global warming geniuses decided oceans near California were rising faster than other places.
That's the price for bottled water in Washington DC. The Israelis pay less than a hundredth of that for their desalinated water.
No. This is a brand new one that just got built.
Obviously you are not a bureaucrat.
People decided to live in a desert area and then want all the vegetation of a wetter area.And open bodies of water known as swimming pools evaporate a lot of water.climate
Bathing for cleanliness needn’t require 50 gallons of water per person per day;cleanliness can be achieved with 1/10 that amount.And that waste water could go to lawns.
Lawn sprinklers and such that imitate rain are not the most efficient way to provide water to plants.
What California needs most is the citizens coming to their senses and tossing the radical enviromentalists and socialists.
Israel has produced most of its water through desalination for decades.
You aren’t going to be able to assert that their water is more expensive than the surrounding Arab countries.
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