Mark Your Calendar for a discussion on the MPWSP Announcing Two FREE Public Forums about Cal-Am's Slant Well project on the CEMEX Property Join us for a discussion on the MPWSP EIR • Flaws of the Cal-Am Slant Well Project at CEMEX site • Dr. Knight’s final groundwater survey results • How Marina and MCWD will challenge this project Wednesday, April 11 6:30-8:30 pm Marina City Hall at 211 Hillcrest Ave Tuesday, April 17 6:30-8:30 pm Marina Library at 190 Seaside Circle The Slant Well Desalination project on the CEMEX property is closing in on approvals. It will unfairly harm ground water resources and the public water agency in Marina, and raise water rates for all. The Public Comment period ends April 19! Come find out What You Can Do!
Final EIR/EIS has been released Just a heads up that the joint "Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the Proposed Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project" has been released.
Many have received a mailer recently on this very same subject. This is the last chance that the public can comment on a very flawed project. Public comments close on April 19th - this is a very short window. Why is it important to comment? From here, should this project get the green light, any public comments become part of the public record. Our voices need to be heard; that it is an injustice to allow a for profit company to take our water, that this project has no cost ceiling or accountability for salt water intrusion damages to the aquifer, that there are other solutions that will provide water sooner and at a lower cost. Water "at any cost" is not a regional solution. Link to Final EIR/EIS and Appendices for online review http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/Environment/info/esa/mpwsp/comms_n_docs.html CD's can be requested by emailing MPWSP-EIR@esassoc.com Lead agencies have hard copies in their offices for review. Paul Michel, Superintendent & NEPA Lead Monterey Bay National Marina Sanctuary Pacific Street, Bldg 455a Monterey, CA 93940 montereybay@noaa.gov John Forsythe, Sr. Environmental Planner & CEQA Lead California Public Utilities Commission c/o Environmental Science Associates 550 Kearny Steet, Suite 800 San Francisco, CA 94108 MPWSP-EIR@esassoc.com Everyone, tonight I just witnessed our City Council in a courageous and surprise move to protect Marina’s water! They voted unanimously to submit an application to become a Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) for the 180/400 foot aquifer that lies beneath the Cemex plant where the proposed Cal-Am slant wells are to be built (areas not within MCWD’s water jurisdiction). The agricultural interests expressed strong opposition to the City’s motion, but Bruce Delgado so articulately said that Marina was not part of the decision-making that would take our water and give it all to the Peninsula. He said if the reverse were true, i.e. that Marina decided to take Carmel’s water, this would never be permitted! Marina is left with all the harms while Cal-Am reaps all the benefits and we have to do however much it takes to save our water supply. Gail Morton’s incisive comments deflated the attempt to position the City’s action as not collaborative; the offer for the City to be on the Salinas Valley Groundwater GSA’s “advisory committee” is hardly a genuine gesture to rectify the city’s lack of true representation! We should all be proud that our local city government is standing up to forces that clearly intend to take advantage of us!
If you would like to view the Council Meeting AMP has posted the entirety here. Discussion of the GSA begins at 16.43. Click Here |
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September 2018
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