데일리 브리즈(Daily Breeze) 지역신문에 따르면 허모서비치(Hermosa Beach)는 서부도시상수지구(West Basin Municipal Water District)가 엘세건도(El Segundo) 지역을 위해 제안한 해수담수화 시설에서 ‘조류 성장의 반대(growing tide of opposition)’에 대한 3억 달러 규모의 협약을 체결했다.

시의회는 사우스 베이 지역 신문에 보고해 물을 공급하는 기관에 조류 성장에 반대하는 예비 의정서를 보내 만장일치로 결정했다. 상수도지구는 해안 에너지발전소에서 본격적인 플랜트 구축에 대한 실패 가능성을 전면적으로 검토 중이며 이는 향후 10년 동안 물수입 의존도를 낮추기 위함이다.

 

 

 

Hermosa Beach has joined a "growing tide of opposition" to the West Basin Municipal Water District's proposed US$ 300 million ocean water desalination for El Segundo according to local newspaper The Daily Breeze.

 

The city council has voted unanimously to send a preliminary letter of opposition to the agency, which supplies water to most of the South Bay the newspaper reported.

 

West Basin has mulling the possibility of building the proposed full-scale plant at the site of a coastal NRG power plant as part of its drive over the next ten years to reduce its dependence on imported water. The plant would turn seawater into potable water at 90 Ml/d to 270 Ml/d.

 

Once it has approval from West Basin and other regulators t could begin delivering water as early as 2023 the newspaper said.

 

The city of Manhattan Beach has drafted a letter of opposition to the plant. According to the newspaper the letter urged West Basin to "explore all other alternatives, including additional conservation and expansion of recycled water prior to investing in the proposed project that has unknown and potential (substantial) impacts on the Santa Monica Bay.

 

 "The city strongly opposes the West Basin Desalination plant until efforts to expand and pursue all other local, available water supplies are exhausted."

 

West Basin board president Carol W Kwan said in a statement: "We remain committed to further exploring ocean water desalination through research, educating our communities, and the EIR process, which will help us fully understand and address any potential project concerns." She asserted that West Basin had "not yet made a decision to construct a desalination facility."

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2016년 3월 28일]