Poseidon Water's plans to build a seawater desalination plant in Huntington Beach appear headed for a key approval in a major test of California's new ocean rules.
Poseidon Water’s long-delayed plans to build one of the West Coast’s biggest seawater desalination plants on the Huntington Beach coastline appear headed for a key approval.
would allow the company to use existing ocean pipes to draw seawater and discharge the brine left over from the desalting process. The state Coastal Commission staff has pushed Poseidon to abandon the open ocean intake, which sucks up plankton, fish larvae and other organisms that are a vital part of the sea’s food chain.
Poseidon has agreed to install fine-mesh screens on the intake to reduce marine mortality. It will also attach diffusing equipment to the end of the outfall pipe to prevent the dense brine effluent — twice as salty as seawater — from falling to the ocean floor in a deadly mass. Despite seawater desalination’s appeal as a drought-proof water supply in a semi-arid state, California has been slow to embrace the coastal plants, which are energy intensive, produce expensive water and exact a toll on the ocean environment.
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