South Coast Water District is one step closer to constructing and operating a seawater desalination plant at Doheny State Beach following the California Coastal Commission’s unanimous vote to approve the roughly $140 million project on Thursday, Oct. 13.
Members of the local community are invited to help spruce up beaches in San Clemente, and Baby Beach and other surrounding areas in Dana Point for California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept. 17.
Following the California Coastal Commission’s unanimous vote last month to deny permitting for the Brookfield-Poseidon Desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the South Coast Water District is working to obtain all major permits for its Doheny Desalination plant by the end of the year with the hope of producing up to five million gallons of potable drinking water a day by 2027.
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