Monterey County facility would be built near Marina, faced opposition over high cost
Following a decade of debates and political battles, the California Coastal Commission has approved a plan to build the largest ocean desalination plant ever built in Northern California.
“We have a building moratorium. We have water rationing,” said Josh Stratton, a spokesman for California American Water, a private company that proposed the plant and which provides water to about 100,000 people in the Monterey Peninsula area. “There are multiple housing projects that haven’t gone forward. We already have some of the lowest per-capita water consumption in the state. This is critically needed.
“The water will be obscenely expensive,” said Melodie Chrislock, director of Public Water Now, a non-profit group that has been pushing for a public takeover of Cal-Am. “And it’s not fair to put it in Marina. They don’t get a drop of the water and they get all the environmental impacts.” Critics say there’s a better approach: Continue to expand Pure Water Monterey, an advanced water recycling project run by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and Monterey One Water, the area’s wastewater operator, that recycles wastewater and puts it into underground aquifers.
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