Environmental Press # 299

Subj: [SEHBNA] OOG: Desalination Coastal Commission Review Thursday HB
Date: 8/5/2003 11:56:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Jon V3

Dear SEHBNA (Southeast Huntington Beach Neighborhood Association) and OOG (Ocean Outfall Group):

Desalination as regards Coastal Act policies and examples from Long Beach will be heard at the Coastal Commission meeting this Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Huntington Beach. Everyone interested in desalination, including the Poseidon proposal at the AES Power Plant, should make a point to attend this meeting, if your schedule permits.

Here are the agenda items:

August 2003 Agenda

Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach
21500 Pacific Coast Hwy
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
(714) 698-1234

 

9:00 a.m.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2003

b. Briefing on Updated Seawater Desalination Report. Briefing by Commission staff on draft report describing how Coastal Act policies may apply to proposed seawater desalination facilities, and information needed for reviewing such facilities for Coastal Act conformity. Staff will also summarize status of state desalination task force and various desalination proposals. (TRL-SF)

10. COASTAL PERMIT APPLICATIONS. See AGENDA HEADINGS.

Please Note: Items 10a and 10b are linked to a single combined staff report.

a. Appeal No. A-5-03-239 (Long Beach desalination test facility) Appeal by Commissioners Wan & Iseman from decision of City of Long Beach granting permit with conditions to Long Beach Water Department for desalination test facility at Haynes Generating Station, Long Beach, Los Angeles County. (TRL-SF)

b. Application No. E-03-7 (Long Beach desalination test facility) Application of Long Beach Water Department to construct and operate temporary desalination test facility using up to 850,000 gallons per day of seawater from intake channel associated with Alamitos Bay used by Haynes Generating Station, in Long Beach, Los Angeles County. (TRL-SF)

See the full Coastal Commission Agenda at:

California Coastal Commission August 2003 Meeting Agenda

Be there or be square. This is the time to learn about what the Coastal Act means regarding desalination in general and, very probably, Poseidon in particular.

Thanks.

Jan Vandersloot (949) 548-6326

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