WATER: Poseidon submits desalination plants
Coastal Commission to consider project in August
By BRADLEY J. FIKES - Staff Writer | ∞
Poseidon Resources has submitted two plans for its proposed Carlsbad desalination plant to the California Coastal Commission, the company said Wednesday.
One plan is to reduce the desalination plant's effect on ocean life. The second is to reduce the energy needed by the plant, which would in turn reduce generation of greenhouse gases.
The plans were requested by the commission as a condition of approving the project, said Scott Maloni, a Poseidon vice president.
The Coastal Commission plans to meet sometime in early August in Oceanside to vote on the plans.
Poseidon plans to build the desalination plant next to the Encina Power Station. The plant would turn up to 50 million gallons a day of seawater into drinking water, about 9.3 percent of the county's current annual water consumption.
This guaranteed local source would improve the reliability of the county's increasingly shaky water supply, most of which is imported hundreds of miles from Northern California and the Colorado River.
Contact staff writer Bradley J. Fikes at (760) 739-6641 or bfikes@nctimes.com.
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Merle wrote on Jul 10, 2008 7:56 PM:How about better land and water management in general for San Diego County? How about toilet to tap, recycling, conservation mandates? A total lack of land management, greed, and over building has got San Diego where it is today and you think an outdated desal technology is going to save you? Wait until this leads to water privatization. Posiedon is NOT who you think they are, ask Tampa Bay, Fl..
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