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San Clemente staff outline costs and risks of joining Doheny desalination project
Summary
San Clemente City staff on Thursday presented the council with details of the proposed Doheny desalination project, saying a 1 million‑gallon‑a‑day capacity purchase would diversify supply but could raise water costs and expose the city to electricity‑price risk.
San Clemente City staff on Thursday presented the council with details of a proposed regional desalination project at Doheny Beach and options for city participation.
The presentation described a 5 million‑gallon‑per‑day plant being advanced by South Coast Water District and noted that if San Clemente purchased 1 million gallons per day of capacity, “it would help the city in diversifying its water supply portfolio and improve reliability, especially in the event of an outage,” a staff member said. Staff said the purchase would lower the city’s reliance on imported water from about 80% to about 67% and increase stored water reliability to roughly 61 days in the modeled outage scenario.
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