Tag: Legislation
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Final draft of San Diego water-reuse scheme published
The City of San Diego, California, has published the final draft of its Recycled Water Study – the culmination of a two-year process to develop a new vision for water reuse in the San Diego region.
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NRDC report urges control and reuse of fracking wastewater
The US Environmental Protection Agency and individual states should ban or more strictly regulate the discharge of shale gas wastewater (SGW) from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). They should also update pollution control standards for centralised waste treatment facilities (CWTs) that accept SGW.
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Overview of Santa Cruz desalination project published
A new two-page factsheet on the proposed desalination project for the Californian City of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District (SCWD) has been published by the agencies.
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ACWA supports California desalination regulation rethink
The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) has proposed to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) that the board’s new environmental document for desalination and brine disposal should propose a method to combine the current regulatory requirements, permits and approvals.
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Groups appeal Huntington Beach desalination permit
Four environmental groups in California have appealed a decision by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board (WQCB) to grant a permit for the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant proposed by Poseidon Resources.
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Huntington Beach desalination project get NPDES permit
The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board (SARWQCB) in California, USA, on 10 February 2012 unanimously approved an amended National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit for the Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Project.
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Another legal blow for Monterey desalination alternative
California American Water’s (Cal Am’s) progress in developing an alternative desalination project for California’s Monterey Peninsula received yet another setback on 2 February 2012, when a judge issued an amended ruling on the environmental impact report (EIR) originally published for the abandoned Regional Desalination Project.
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Judge tells Cal Am to produce Monterey plan
California America Water (Cal Am) has until the start of March to come up with a new plan for providing water to the Monterey peninsula, according to a ruling by an administrative court on 25 January 2012.
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More twists in Monterey desalination saga
In yet another twist to the troubled Monterey desalination project in California, a judge on 19 December 2011 ordered a new environmental impact review (EIR) for the plan.
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Marin MWD to appeal desalination EIR judgement
The Marin Municipal Water District voted on 16 November 2011 to appeal a judicial ruling that an environmental impact report (EIR) for its possible seawater desalination project was flawed, which effectively stopped the project.