Edhat Staff
March 27, 2018, 12:49 pm
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Source: The City of Santa Barbara
The City’s Desalination Plant uses state-of-the-art technology and design practices to reduce electrical demand and environmental impacts, while providing a critical water supply for the City. The plant produces three million gallons of drinking water per day. This is equivalent to 3,125 acre-feet of water annually, or about 30 percent of the City’s demand.
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Here’s my proposal. Since Goleta has to put up with the traffic and noise from the “SB” airport, and since SB wants to put even more traffic & noise in Goleta with new buildings on extended airport property, SB shares its desal water with Goleta 50/50 in exchange for mitigation fees for the traffic and noise they’re imposing on Goleta. And Montecito ought to figure out how to cooperate regionally as well, rather than build their own desal plant. Perhaps Montecito could be the lead entity on building Yeti’s proposed reclamation plant.
Actually it has been worked out in that hotbed of green thinking….Orange County California!
https://www.ocwd.com/what-we-do/
The Santa Barbara City Council went for the sexy desalination plant instead of spending less money on the much more environmentally friendly water treatment plant. We are still stuck with a outdated sewage treatment facitity that creates a horrible odor cloud that from time to time stinks up the prime tourist areas of town. That would be acceptable in a second or third world country, but not in the American Riviera.
We were stuck with an outdated sewage treatment plant the day it was built. This design/build is a function of nepotism (3rd world problem) and was wrong from the start. There were other designs, but they were only courted after construction proved a flawed design. They were told that there is no fix and that the plant should have been built with a better design from the beginning.
The definition of a 3rd world country is one that exports raw materials and imports finished goods; a definition that has applied to the U.S. for many decades. No 1st world high horse here!