TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Alexandria Latragna, Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Receive Presentation by West Basin Municipal Water District on the Proposed Ocean Desalination Plant to be Located in El Segundo (City Manager Moe).
RECEIVE PRESENTATION
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council receive a presentation from West Basin Municipal Water District on the proposed Ocean Water Desalination Project.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
The proposed Project would consist of a desalination facility utilizing membrane filtration and reverse osmosis technologies to produce between 20 and 60 million gallons per day (mgd) of water from the ocean, depending on which configuration of the Project is constructed. The facility would have an ocean water intake system to deliver the ocean water to the facility and a brine discharge system to return concentrated seawater back to the ocean. The Project also includes a distribution system for the potable water that would be produced, with expanded facilities required to distribute the 60 million gallons per day if the full Project is developed. The proposed project site would be adjacent to Manhattan Beach at a 33-acre location within the El Segundo Generating Station (ESGS) at 301 Vista Del Mar in the City of El Segundo, California.
West Basin conducted an environmental review to evaluate the possible impacts, mitigation measures, and alternatives to the Project as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). CEQA requires state and local agencies to identify adverse environmental impacts that projects may have, as well as identify ways to avoid or mitigate those impacts if possible. West Basin, the lead agency on the Project, determined that the Project may have imp...
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