Water board debates how and when Poseidon should offset the environmental harm of its proposed Huntington Beach seawater desalination plant.
The state’s focus on fighting fires has some experts asking, “Does California need a new agency to focus on wildfire prevention?”That issue dominated board discussion during last week’s marathon hearing and will be taken up again Thursday.
Poseidon would screen the power plant’s offshore intake pipe, which is big enough for a tractor-trailer to drive through, and use it to feed the desalter with 106 million gallons a day of seawater.A reverse osmosis scrubbing process would convert roughly half of that volume into water supplies and half to a super-salty brine that would be dumped back into the ocean via a 1,500-foot discharge pipe equipped with outfall diffusers to promote mixing and dilution.
“We cannot continue to move forward with the project” under the operating prohibition, he told the board. The facility was initially approved before adoption of new state ocean-protection rules that apply to the similarly sized Huntington Beach project.
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