Unsung Heroes: Carlsbad’s desalination plant workers – California The Carlsbad Desalination Plant turns seawater into clean safe drinking water. In an effort to keep delivering 50 million gallons of fresh water to the county daily the plant has gone on complete lockdown.As of March 19, 10 workers volunteered to quarantine themselves inside the Carlsbad plant for the next three weeks. The company said workers will continue to monitor and adjust gauges and switches, watching for leaks – doing whatever is needed to safeguard San Diego County’s only significant local source of drinking water. […] Unsung Heroes: Carlsbad’s desalination plant workers – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-04-02T16:08:59+02:00
Water & Wastewater Workers Considered Essential During COVID-19 Outbreak – California 10 workers are quarantined inside the Claude Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, California for the next three weeks. The workers are monitoring and adjusting gauges and switches, watching for leaks, and completing other tasks needed to safeguard San Diego County’s only significant local source of drinking water. All 10 volunteered themselves. The Carlsbad plant is home to 40 employees overall, reported the San Diego Tribune. The request for volunteers was a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, reported the San Diego Tribune. Water & Wastewater Workers Considered Essential During COVID-19 Outbreak – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-03-24T14:53:06+01:00
Poseidon desal plant gets fresh analysis, but coronavirus delays Friday meeting – California A water board staff report prepared for the meeting provides apparent justification for the board to approve the project, but it also notes the board may disagree and request a revision. Poseidon Water needs just two more permits to go forward — one from the water board and then one from the Coastal Commission The workshop planned for Friday was to follow up a similar session held in December. At that meeting, several key issues continued to concern some board members, who […] Poseidon desal plant gets fresh analysis, but coronavirus delays Friday meeting – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-03-14T15:19:24+01:00
Multimillion-dollar contract to run El Segundo water recycling plant again awarded without bidding – California Continuing a practice started in the 1990s, the West Basin Municipal Water District has again bypassed competitive bidding in awarding a multimillion-dollar contract to operate its wastewater treatment facility in El Segundo. The district board recently renewed a five-year contract worth roughly $13 million a year to Suez Water Environmental Services to run the award-winning plant. Since 2016, Suez has earned roughly $61 million on the deal with West Basin. Suez — and before that United Water, which Suez purchased in 2000 […] Multimillion-dollar contract to run El Segundo water recycling plant again awarded without bidding – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-03-07T22:06:42+01:00
Maestas: Poseidon Desalination Would Worsen Environmental Injustice in Orange County – California What would California be without the beach? I grew up in Irvine with an awareness of how fortunate we are to live near the ocean. As a child, my parents and babysitters took me and my brother to Corona Del Mar and Newport Beach frequently during the summer. I have many happy memories of enjoying the waves at “our beaches” while bodysurfing, building sandcastles, and seeing fish, anemones, sandcrabs, dolphins and jellyfish! We also took school field trips to Crystal Cove to learn about the […] Maestas: Poseidon Desalination Would Worsen Environmental Injustice in Orange County – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-03-06T11:05:51+01:00
Possible Water Board hearing on desalination plant is nearing – California Those supporting Poseidon Water’s plans to build a saltwater-to-freshwater conversion factory on the Huntington Beach coast certainly hoped the desalination project would be moving forward in earnest by now. A December 2019 vote on the desalination plant was put off, however, and Poseidon would have to wait a few more months before knowing whether it would be allowed to go forward with its ambitious $1 billion project. Members of the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board are expected to make […] Possible Water Board hearing on desalination plant is nearing – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-02-20T17:12:21+01:00
Why desalination can help quench California’s water needs – California If you’ve ever created a personal budget, you know that assigning your money to different investment strategies is a crucial component to meet your financial goals. When you stop dipping into your savings account each month, savings can begin to build. Understanding why desalination is so critical to California’s water future is a lot like building a personal budget. With a changing climate, growing population and booming economy, we need to include desalination in the water supply equation to help make […] Why desalination can help quench California’s water needs – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-01-29T23:17:55+01:00
Desalination Plant Can Transform Monterey Peninsula And Help Avert Water Crisis – California Nobody likes to look out to the Pacific Ocean and see oil derricks on the horizon. That’s why California wisely banned new offshore oil drilling 50 years ago. But in Monterey County, coastal views are limited by a relic of a bygone era: a giant, industrial sand plant right on the dunes between Highway One and the ocean. In 2017, the California Coastal Commission reached an agreement with the sand plant for operations to shut down by 2020 and for all buildings and […] Desalination Plant Can Transform Monterey Peninsula And Help Avert Water Crisis – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-01-11T15:47:50+01:00
Composites‘ role in seawater reverse osmosis desalination – California In an effort to solve water shortage issues in the U.S. state of California, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered key state agencies to develop a blueprint for meeting California’s 21st century water needs, to ensure safe and resilient water supplies, flood protection and healthy waterways for the state’s communities, economy and environment. Two solutions in which composites play a significant role are wastewater purification (which was featured in CW’s January 2020 feature “Composites help take the waste out of wastewater”) and, the focus of this report, […] Composites‘ role in seawater reverse osmosis desalination – CaliforniaDME GmbH2020-01-01T14:18:48+01:00
As Groundwater Basins ‘Rest,’ Santa Barbara Looks to Reservoirs for Future Water Supplies – California This winter has started out as a wet one, but even if the rain tapers off, Santa Barbara can meet the water demands of its customers through 2022 with existing supplies, according to city staff. It’s been more than eight years since Lake Cachuma filled up and spilled, and groundwater basins all over Santa Barbara County are at historically low levels after being heavily pumped during the long drought. Groundwater well pumps are off to help basins “rest,” and it will take an estimated […] As Groundwater Basins ‘Rest,’ Santa Barbara Looks to Reservoirs for Future Water Supplies – CaliforniaDME GmbH2019-12-28T14:54:48+01:00