Quick answers to Poseidon questions Will we...

Quick answers to Poseidon questions

Will we be needing alternative sources of water in the future?

Yes.

Should we be forward thinkers and start planning for that need

now? Yes.

SUZANNE BEUKEMA

Southeast Huntington Beach

Poseidon offers nothing to our town

I hope the City Council majority realizes that Poseidon offers

nothing to the residents of Huntington Beach. The largest

desalination plant in North America does not belong in Huntington

Beach, where we are not getting any of the water. Our ocean will be

polluted with twice as much salt as it had when they took it, and

they have no customers. Their proposed pipeline can’t be built, and

the science for the magnitude of this desalination plant isn’t there

yet.

Listen to your constituents, please.

Vote no on the conditional use permit Monday night.

VI COWDEN

Huntington Beach

Plant would benefit area marine life

I wish to voice my support of the construction of the Poseidon

water treatment facility in Huntington Beach, knowing very well the

need for a clean and more dependable water source for our area.

Desalination using the reverse osmosis technique is

environmentally sound, and reusing the effluent water from the power

plant will reduce the temperature of the water returned to the ocean,

thereby benefiting, not harming, the marine environment as well.

The design and landscaping planned will certainly improve that

industrial area and our special oceanfront, and the new water storage

units will be a major asset to our community in an emergency.

Since 1968 I have enjoyed living in Huntington Beach and

volunteering in community environmental affairs. As one of many quiet

but dedicated environmentalists in the area, I urge everyone to

support the construction of this water treatment facility in

Huntington Beach.

MARGARET CARLBERG

Huntington Beach

Many reasons to be against desal plant

There are many reasons not to have a desalinization plant right

now.

No. 1 is that we do not really need it yet. If you check with the

state water resource board (and other water regulators) I believe you

will find that they do not feel we need it yet. Besides that, some

fairly simple conservation measures could carry us for many years

with enough water (and what about all the rain we have been having?)

if we should have a shortage. Huntington Beach is on top of a huge

aquifer already. So, what is the rush? Are we being manipulated

again, just like with the supposed energy crisis, so some people can

make a lot of money? The longer we wait, the better the technology.

If there is a real water crisis, we can get desalinization then, and

most likely not only with better technology, but -- as we all know --

as the technology improves you often find a lower price tag. Just

like the state did with the supposed energy crisis (when they allowed

AES to open up the second half of that antique polluting energy

plant), if a crisis occurs this can be done quickly.

The second reason is that the desalinization plant would be

intimately linked with the power plant, thus potentially keeping the

eye-and lung-sore power plant running even longer. When I moved into

this area in the 1980s, there was talk of closing down the plant

because it was inefficient, was old technology, was polluting, etc.

(In my house, we produce our own clean electricity with solar panels

that cover only about a third of our two-car garage).

A third reason is that we are attempting to be a tourist

destination. Who wants to travel to a beach where the water is

considered unsafe at times (possibly associated with the power plant,

and the desalination plant well could amplify this) and see those two

stacks bellowing out visual-air pollution from almost anywhere along

the coast?

A fourth reason is that this would be the privatization of water

(if we continue the pollution trend we can sell manufactured air as

well).

There are other reasons including clear and present effects on the

environment (the ocean itself, the plants and animals, etc.). Let’s

just say no for now. We do not yet need a desalinization plant.

FRED J. GALLUCCIO

Huntington Beach

Dingwall accusation not too serious

Re: Planning Commissioner Bob Dingwall being accused of violating

the state’s open-meetings law:

It does not seem to be too serious.

The Brown Act should be reevaluated.

DEBBIE DEMEULLE

Huntington Beach

Bella Terra will be something to love

For the city, Bella Terra will be a boon; it will be a great thing

for Huntington Beach. It looks to me so far to be a great community

gathering place. It’s beautiful as well. I really look forward to

enjoying the space. It’s very Italian-like. I love Italy, so I’m

looking forward to that.

It seems to promote lots of business. I’m also looking forward to

seeing the list of more of the companies that are going to be

occupying the mall. I’m excited to look at the list.

DEBRA MULLEN

Huntington Beach