WATER SUPPLY PLANNING COMMITTEE

 

ITEM:

DISCUSSION ITEMS

 

2.

UPDATE ON POTENTIAL FOR SEAWATER DESALINATION WITHIN DISTRICT BOUNDARIES

 

Meeting Date:
December 8, 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 meeting of the Board’s Water Supply Planning Committee, the Committee directed staff to make a presentation to the full Board on feedwater intake capacities in two of the tables in 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.” (Constraints Analysis report) and on some of the findings made in the report.   District Engineer Andrew Bell made a presentation to the full Board at the November 15, 2010 meeting on the feedwater intake capacities provided in the Constraints Analysis report. 

At the November 16, 2010 meeting of the Water Supply Planning Committee, Committee members asked that staff clarify specific information in the report.  The requested clarifications are provided in a November 30, 2010 memorandum from District Engineer Andrew Bell to the Committee members, attached as Exhibit 2-A.

 

At the November 15, 2010 Committee meeting, David Armanasco and representatives of Desal America, Calera, and Moss Landing Business Park gave a presentation on a proposed desalination project at the former National Refractories site in Moss Landing.   Pursuant to the Committee’s direction, staff assembled questions regarding the proposal and sent the questions and the most recent version of the District’s matrix of water supply projects to Mr. Armanasco with a request that the project proponents provide responses to staff’s questions and provide information for the proposed project as listed in the matrix.  An example of the matrix is attached as Exhibit 2-B.

 

EXHIBIT

2-A      November 30, 2010 Memorandum from Andrew M. Bell, District Engineer, to Water Supply Planning Committee Members, “Water Supply Quantities in August 2008 MPWMD 95-10 Project Constraints Analysis Report”

2-B      MPWMD Comparative Matrix -- Part I, Desalination Projects, June 2009 draft

 

 

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