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Need sea water to sustain our growth

Donna Gray

I am a resident of Huntington Beach and a native Southern

Californian. I am responding in support of the efforts to establish a

sea-water treatment plant that will provide much-needed additional

water supplies to the region.

An adequate water supply should be of critical concern to all of

us who live in Orange County as well as in other parts of thirsty

California.

Much of our water continues to be imported and, as the supply

becomes tighter and more expensive, we must look to the future and

implement new ways to provide for the sustained growth that will

surely continue. The ocean offers an abundant supply. The location

proposed for the desalination plant is in an existing industrial area

adjacent to the AES power plant and would use sea water already being

drawn for that plants’ operation. I believe that concerns about the

impact on the surrounding neighborhood as well as ocean environmental

concerns can be mitigated with good planning, community input and

application of sound science.

* DONNA GRAY is a Huntington Beach resident. To contribute to

“Sounding Off” e-mail us at hbindependent@ latimes.com or fax us at

(714) 966-4667.

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