Environment

Carlsbad Desalination Plant Could Break Ground in November

By Ed Joyce / Reporter

Published July 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

The desalination project is located at the Encina Power Station in the City of Carlsbad.

Carlsbad Desalination Plant Could Break Ground in November

The company that plans to build a desalination plant in Carlsbad has hired three people to oversee the project's construction. Poseidon Resources hopes to break ground this fall.

Poseidon Resources says the three new management employees have decades of expertise in water supply, engineering and project construction.

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One of the new staffers will oversee Poseidon's other desalination projects in Huntington Beach and in Northern California.

Poseidon Vice President Scott Maloni says the success in getting the regulatory approvals for the Carlsbad plant has paved the way for additional desalination projects in California.

"We're focusing our attention on our Huntington Beach project up in Orange County and we're also looking at some opportunities up in Northern California," Maloni says.

Maloni says the company expects to start construction on the $300 million Carlsbad desalination plant in November.

He says the plant could be operating in 2012.

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The public-private partnership with the city of Carlsbad will produce 50 million gallons a day of drinking water from seawater.

That's enough to supply 300,000 homes for a year.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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