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individuals who have requested to be informed on the status of the Desalination
Program. To sign up, please click here.
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Monthly Project Update - January 2010
Happy New Year!
2009 proved to be an
eventful year for the scwd2
Desalination Program! Just a few of last year’s highlights included:
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Closed the SWRO Pilot Plant at UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory in
April 2009
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Hosted two informational meetings in April and September 2009
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Launched two studies to evaluate the intake for the proposed
desalination facility:
Entrainment Study and the Offshore Geophysical Study
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Completed the Dilution Study for the proposed brine discharge
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Continued the water sampling program for the Watershed Sanitary
Survey
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Launched the Energy Minimization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Study to calculate the energy required to operate the proposed
plant and recommend potential offset projects.
Upcoming program
components for 2010 include launching the CEQA environmental review
process (EIR) and preliminary design for the proposed 2.5 million
gallon per day facility.
To see the project schedule,
click
here.
Let it rain!
While rainfall in October and December may have
gotten local residents a bit wet, so far
Santa Cruz
has only received approximately 9.5 inches of rain.
Normal rainfall for the season in Santa Cruz County is 30.67 inches and last year’s
total was 22 inches. The
repeating pattern of below-average rainfall this year may trigger
water restrictions this summer.
Click here to read a recent article published in the Santa Cruz
Sentinel on January 2, 2009 regarding the City of Santa Cruz Water
Department’s concerns.
For now, no decision on future water restrictions have been
made as we hope a rainy season is still up-ahead.
Project
Information
For more information, please visit our project
website at www.scwd2desal.org
or call 831.475.8501 x153. Please share these updates with others.
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