[CPEO-MEF] Desalination at Camp Pendleton?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water officials like San Onofre plant idea

By: GIG CONAUGHTON
North County Times (CA)
December 10, 2004 

SAN DIEGO ---- County water officials Thursday praised a study that said
it was possible to build a plant at the San Onofre nuclear power
facility that would turn ocean water into drinking water. They urged a
deeper investigation of the idea.

...

Ed Rogers, the board's representative from Camp Pendleton, warned that
the board must move slowly in any negotiations with the military base,
the largest Marine Corps training site in the nation.

The San Onofre nuclear station is operated by Edison on land leased from Pendleton.

"The purpose of Camp Pendleton is to train Marines to win wars, and
anything that detracts from that will (find) opposition," Rogers said.
"There is a tremendous sensitivity aboard the base because a whole bunch
of people want to build things there. Fallbrook wants to build things.
Oceanside wants to build things. Projects of this nature we typically
see as encroachment issues."


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/12/10/news/top_stories/22_01_1912_9_04.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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