Desalination issue bigger than just the Southeast...

Desalination issue bigger than just the Southeast

The desalination plant proposal is a bigger picture issue than

just Southeast Huntington Beach. For years we all have been taking

water from the north and east. Mono Lake is a fraction of what it

once was. The impact to the concentrations of all kinds of nasty

things in the San Joaquin Valley’s water table are generally

understood to be worse off as a result of water flowing south along

the aqueduct.

There is the impact on the rivers, bays and wetlands up and down

California. We feel it every year in Huntington Beach with our beach

bacteria problems. We’ve altered the natural system in at least one

way by taking so much water out of the Santa Anna River to be

replaced by the trickle of urban runoff most of the year.

Certainly the habitats downstream along the Colorado river are

impacted by our appetite for water as well. Will one plant in

Huntington Beach solve these problems? No. Might it create other

problems? Yes. However, if we are ever going to make a step ahead, we

have to allow people to try new things.

I would propose that this fresh water project be allowed to go

ahead with the understanding that engineering changes might have to

be made down the road.

Set aside reserves for such changes in the project’s plan. Then if

it is discovered, for instance, that a 6% salt concentration at the

outfall is too much, additional sea water volume can be added to the

AES outfall or other engineering changes can be made to adjust then.

JOHN P. DELANEY IV

Huntington Beach

Model UN is a waste of school district’s money

I was angered to read that Huntington Beach High School students

are wasting their time with something called the “Model United

Nations” (Global Thinking -- May 29).

Why are valuable educational resources being diverted to promote

an organization filled with socialists and America-haters? If you

want to see the result of policies endorsed by the U.N. you need look

no farther than France. The last I heard school budgets were being

slashed. It’s hard to believe that this program, which indoctrinates

students in a globalist socialist philosophy, wasn’t eliminated.

WAYNE PARKER

Huntington Beach

Council’s foolishness continues to surprise

I always enjoy reading Danette Goulet’s column. The Huntington

Beach City Council members continue to surprise me with their foolish

reactions either spending money or attempting to save it.

I keep thinking they have run out of dumb ideas but they continue

to prove me wrong. If they really wanted to find more money, all they

would have to do is implement slip fees to the residents of

Huntington Harbor and that alone would pay for the entire sports

center.

I might add, they are the most likely users of the sports complex

anyway since it is so far away from the rest of us in the city.

JON KOSKOFF

Huntington Beach

No Pacific City and no more development

No, Pacific City isn’t a good fit for Huntington Beach. We have

too much development. What has happened here in the last seven years

is absolutely unbelievable with all of Sea Cliff being developed.

Goldenwest Street is now a Beach Boulevard, a residential beach

boulevard. We have a traffic signal at every single corner. There’s

too many cars and too many people. I have lived here on and off all

my life practically and I am 70-years-old. I have been at the

Waterfront Hilton three times, I never go to the Hyatt. I mean I just

don’t understand what is going on in this city. They are complaining

about not having enough money for anything, they continue to build

these huge hotels. I just don’t get what is going on.

The quality of life here in Huntington Beach has gone down the

tubes, thanks to developers and as far as Debbie Cook is concerned, I

voted for her the first time, I’ll never vote for that woman again.

And I don’t know where all those letters came from supporting her

because boy, that is not what I heard.

CONNIE TUTTLE

Huntington Beach

I have my residence and also rentals across from Pacific View

Avenue on the north side and none of our neighbors or tenants have

been questioned about the Pacific City project.

We feel that it’s going to cause unbelievable congestion on 1st

and Huntington streets and adjacent streets and we are wondering if

there is going to be widening of any of the streets as far as Atlanta

Avenue is concerned or Huntington Street. The article said that a lot

of the people were contacted but none of us here directly in front of

it were never contacted.

ALICE PARNAKIAN

Huntington Beach

City is giving paintball players mixed signals

First of all, the city should not be host to the paintball game

that they did several months back. Right there, how do you say that’s

OK but it’s not legal to do so in the city, I just think that gives

mixed feedback to the citizens.

SHERREY HOLLANDER

Huntington Beach

City should appeal $2-million Saldivar award

I do believe the city should appeal the court’s decision to award

Antonio Saldivar’s family $2.1 million. If he grabbed a gun, or what

appeared to be a gun, at the officer, the officer did what he should

have done under those circumstances.

DAVID COFFMAN

Huntington Beach

I am appalled at the city paying $2.1 million for killing Saldivar

after he brandished a hand gun, toy or otherwise, to an officer in

pursuit of a suspect. My parents lived in Huntington Beach for 45

years and are appalled that we have to pay for that jury’s findings.

As a Huntington Beach resident, I will defend myself and my city

for everything possible to bring the rights of Americans, but I tell

you what, I will not pay for a $2.1 million. Being a veteran of the

military, I pulled my weapon several times on unsuspecting criminals

pointing handguns at me. Yes I have shot and killed several civilians

but protected my own life.

It is an outrage, an absurdity what they are going to do to this

officer that was protecting the city of Huntington Beach. This lets

anyone pull a toy gun at anybody and get millions and millions of

dollars. There is an absolute atrocity when an officer, in fear of

his life, is basically prosecuted for defending his rights. Think

about your women and children at home.

RICHARD JOHNSON

Huntington Beach

Award should stand, officer was wrong

I say the police officer should be fired. He has two more law

suits against him pending. He is still a police officer, he

completely emptied his revolver. There is nobody like this who should

be on the city of Huntington Beach police force or any police force

like it. He was wrong, he tried to cover it up. The family deserves

the money.

ROBERT DINGMAN

Huntington Beach