The new desalination unit arrived safely to its new home at the Southern California Edison plant on Monday Aug. 24, and is now resting with an ocean view down Pebbly Beach Road.
The new desalination unit arrived safely to its new home at the Southern California Edison plant on Monday Aug. 24, and is now resting with an ocean view down Pebbly Beach Road.
Mayor Anni Marshall and Councilmembers Joe Sampson and Cinde MacGugan-Cassidy were there to document this important step in the management of the drought conditions on Catalina Island with management aide for the city Jordan Monroe and Project Manager Matthew Botting for Edison. Irwin Industries, the subcontractor working on the installation, has been going seven days a week to establish all the infrastructure needed to support the new desal unit and tie it into our existing water system.
The present council members were reportedly impressed with the efforts by everyone working on this project to keep everything on schedule, especially with such a short timeline. With limited space available at the Pebbly Beach plant Edison is fitting the new unit in like it was always designed to be there. The unit is expected to be online toward the end of September 2015.
“This is truly a time to celebrate the collaboration with Southern California Edison and the residents, businesses and visitors of Avalon through your City Council. SCE’s diligence in this project is to be commended” said Marshall.
“The council’s efforts partnered with SCE to abate Stage 3 water rationing is one of the multiple steps to mitigate the water rationing and address water security for generations to come,” she said.
