When one thinks of desalination plants, they are generally connected directly to the ocean. <\/p>\n
But on June 11, groundbreaking took place for an expanded desalination effort a few miles inland in Torrance. The purpose: to take salt out of groundwater contaminated through ocean water intrusion.<\/p>\n
The $187 million project to expand an existing desalination plant is being spearheaded by the city of Torrance and the Lakewood-based Water Replenishment District of Southern California. Dallas-based Jacobs Solutions Inc. is the principal designer for the expansion project and St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. is the primary builder.<\/p>\n
The Robert Goldsworthy Groundwater Desalter plant originally opened in Torrance in 2001 to remove salt from local groundwater \u2013 primarily through reverse osmosis \u2013 to make it usable for drinking and irrigation. <\/p>\n
This expansion project is designed to roughly double the amount of water from this plume that is cleansed to a new total of about 7,100 acre-feet annually, or 2.3 billion gallons. According to a formula used by the state as of last December, that amount can supply the annual water needs of at least 15,000 single-family homes.<\/p>\n
To date, the Water Replenishment District of Southern California has raised about $82 million toward the project. <\/p>\n
Completion of this phase of the project is now set for late 2028, with the expanded capacity coming fully online by early 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When one thinks of desalination plants, they are generally connected directly to the ocean. But on June 11,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-369895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}