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[*] posted on 7-4-2016 at 11:44 AM


Up to 100,000,000 US gallons (380,000 m3) per day of cooling water from the Encina Power Plant is taken into the desalination plant.[23] The water intake is filtered through gravel, sand, and other media to greatly reduce particulates before going through reverse osmosis filtration.[13] Half of the saltwater taken into the plant is converted into pure potable water and the rest is discharged as concentrated brine.[24]

The outflow of the plant is put into the discharge from the Encina Power Plant for dilution, for a final salt concentration about 20% higher than seawater. Most desalination plants discharge water with about 50% extra salt, which can lead to dead spots in the ocean, because the super-saline brine doesn't mix well with seawater.[13] The NRG Encina Power Station is expected to go offline in 2017, and Poseidon Water will then take over dredging responsibility for the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, taking over from NRG;[25] without dredging at the mouth of the lagoon, it would revert to being a pre-1952 mudflat.[26]






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[*] posted on 7-4-2016 at 02:18 PM


Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  
Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Desal is expensive water. Takes mucho energy.
Desal water will be too expensive to irrigate landscape. More of the same: developed areas w/o vegetation. Ugly!

Thank god for aqueducts in CA.



Guess you don't know about the 1 billion dollar desalination plant in Carlsbad, San Diego county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant


SDCWA will buy anything if you blow enough smoke and cash up their butt. Another example of why we should all vote for people like Bernie. :light:
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[*] posted on 7-4-2016 at 02:54 PM


it does seem something of a boondoggle to use all that energy to desal water when only 20 percent of the water in the state goes to residential (including landscaping) and commercial uses. The other 80 percent of that goes to agriculture. Of that, the current whipping post is almonds but they only use 10 percent, which if you've driven the Central Valley doesn't seem like much in comparison to the endless orchards. So where is all the water going? 25 percent goes to raising cattle, another 25 percent is indirectly related to growing cattle. Take a drive through the Colorado River Valley and Imperial Districts and see all the acreage devoted to growing alfalfa in the desert! That's all for cattle. Well, some for China too. So if we shift just some of that cattle ranching to Texas and further east (where there's better rangeland and more rainfall) there would be enough extra water to mothball these desal plants.
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