The California Coastal Commission will decide whether to permit a proposed Marina desalination plant on Thursday. But Marina Mayor Bruce Carlos Delgado plans to fight him. “Marina gets nothing from the water, but everything bad,” Delgado said. “Our air, our coastline, our groundwater is under threat, our vertical basins will dry up. The path to the beach will pass through industrial facilities that Monterey and Carmel will never allow on their beaches.” The project was proposed by California American Water, which would use the plant to supply millions of gallons of water to approximately 100,000 of its customers on the Monterey Peninsula, which are primarily wealthier communities: the city of Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel-by-la-Mer and the neighborhoods of Pebble Beach. The project should meet 40% of the peninsula’s water needs. “You can imagine the popularity of setting up an industrial site on the beaches of Monterey or the beaches of Carmel. So we have a long pattern of injustice in this country, where unwanted industrial facilities are set up in small low-income minority-dominated communities,” Delgado said. said. As climate change and statewide drought persist, water scarcity becomes a pressing issue. Since 1995, one state has imposed a cease and desist order, preventing the peninsula from drawing water from its main water supply, the drying up Carmel River. A second cease and desist order was implemented in 2009 with an extended deadline of December 31, 2021 for compliance. “It’s gotten politicized and I don’t understand why,” Cal Am spokesman Josh Stratton said. “At the end of the day, we need more water. I think we all know we’re in a state of prolonged drought in the state of California and Monterey County, so I don’t understand why people would object to such a large project.” Alternatively, the proponents proposed to expand the inflow of recycled sewage from the peninsula provided by Monterey One Water and the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to Cal Am. It is touted as being less expensive than the desalination plant, but critics question whether the spring water would provide a sufficient supply. To move forward, the California Public Utility Commission would have to authorize the purchase of the water expansion and the agreement would require a signature from Cal Am, M1W and MPWM. Cal Am says it plans to sign the deal and suggests the two projects — the desalination plant and the water expansion — could move forward together. But according to MPWM, taking on both projects would entail unnecessary costs. The CPUC is due to consider the proposal on December 1.
The California Coastal Commission will decide whether to permit a proposed Marina desalination plant on Thursday. But Marina Mayor Bruce Carlos Delgado plans to fight him.
“Marina gets nothing from the water, but everything bad,” Delgado said. “Our air, our coastline, our groundwater is under threat, our vertical basins will dry up. The path to the beach will pass through industrial facilities that Monterey and Carmel will never allow on their beaches.”
The project was proposed by California American Water, which would use the plant to supply millions of gallons of water to approximately 100,000 of its customers on the Monterey Peninsula, which are primarily wealthier communities: the city of Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel-by-la-Mer and the neighborhoods of Pebble Beach.
The project should meet 40% of the peninsula’s water needs.
“You can imagine the popularity of setting up an industrial site on the beaches of Monterey or the beaches of Carmel. So we have a long pattern of injustice in this country, where unwanted industrial facilities are set up in small low-income minority-dominated communities,” Delgado said. said.
As climate change and statewide drought persist, water scarcity becomes a pressing issue.
Since 1995, one state has imposed a cease and desist order, preventing the peninsula from drawing water from its main water supply, the drying up Carmel River.
A second cease and desist order was implemented in 2009 with an extended deadline of December 31, 2021 for compliance.
“It’s gotten politicized and I don’t understand why,” Cal Am spokesman Josh Stratton said. “At the end of the day, we need more water. I think we all know we’re in a state of prolonged drought in the state of California and Monterey County, so I don’t understand why people would object to such a large project.”
Alternatively, the proponents proposed to expand the inflow of recycled sewage from the peninsula provided by Monterey One Water and the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to Cal Am.
It is touted as being cheaper than the desalination plant, but critics question whether the spring water would provide a sufficient supply.
To move forward, the California Public Utility Commission would have to authorize the purchase of the water expansion and the agreement would require a signature from Cal Am, M1W and MPWM.
Cal Am says it plans to sign the deal and suggests the two projects — the desalination plant and the water expansion — could move forward together.
But according to MPWM, taking on both projects would entail unnecessary costs.
The CPUC is due to consider the proposal on December 1.
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