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January 9, 2015

California plant turns sewage into drinking water

  • The desalination plant mixes fresh water, estuary water and highly treated sewage wastewater. It is expected to supply a third of Cambria's water demand.
    • By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
    Associated Press

    SAN FRANCISCO — California's drought declaration has triggered only local limits such as restrictions on washing cars or watering lawns for most communities, but one Pacific Coast tourist town has seized it as an opportunity to build a long-desired desalination plant.

    The new project will turn salty water to drinking water for the 6,000-resident town of Cambria, which hugs the cliffs of the central coast, 6 miles south of William Randolph Hearst's famous castle at San Simeon. It is one of the biggest infrastructure projects undertaken in response to Gov. Jerry Brown's drought emergency decree last year.


     
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