WATER SUPPLY PLANNING COMMITTEE

ITEM:		DISCUSSION ITEMS
3.	UPDATE ON POTENTIAL WATER PROJECTS INCLUDING DESALINATION
A. DESALINATION PROJECTS
Meeting Date:			November 16, 2010	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			Darby Fuerst,	Program/	N/A
			General Manager	Line Item No.:
Prepared By:			Andrew Bell	Cost Estimate:	N/A
General Counsel Review: N/A
Committee Recommendation: N/A
CEQA Compliance: N/A

At the October 11, 2010 Water Supply Planning Committee meeting, the Committee reviewed a draft preliminary report by District Engineer Andrew Bell on staff’s findings to date titled “Potential for Desalination Projects within the MPWMD Boundary.”

In response to a request by Director Markey made prior to the meeting, staff provided a handout from the August 2008 report by Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. and ICF Jones & Stokes Associates titled “Monterey Peninsula Water Management District 95-10 Project Constraints Analysis.” This handout included pages showing staff’s estimate of desalination project yields in acre-feet per year corresponding to feedwater intake rates shown in gallons per minute in two of the report tables. The Committee directed staff to make a presentation to the full Board at the November 15, 2010 meeting on feedwater intake capacities in two of the tables in the Constraints Analysis report and on some of the findings made in the report.

Staff will provide an oral report on recent contacts made regarding the potential for siting seawater desalination facilities at the old Monterey treatment plant site across Del Monte Avenue from the Naval Postgraduate School Site and Sites within the City of Sand City.

EXHIBIT

3-A November 8, 2010 Memorandum from Andrew M. Bell, MPWMD District Engineer, to Darby Fuerst, MPWMD General Manager, Progress Report on Desalination Project Potential at U.S. Navy Site and Sites within City of Sand City

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