{"id":5362,"date":"2009-05-13T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2009-05-13T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:37:55","slug":"water-board-gives-poseidon-a-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"Water Board Gives Poseidon A Thumbs Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most knew that it was only a formality, but this morning the <strong>San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board<\/strong> met to vote on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poseidonresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poseidon Resources<\/a><\/strong> proposed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?s=desal\" target=\"_blank\">desalination plant<\/a><\/strong> in <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> Aqua Hedionda lagoon. And guess what? It was a unanimous approval according to a <strong>Michael Burge<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/may\/13\/bn13desal115944\/?northcounty&amp;zIndex=98681\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling clears the way for Poseidon Resources to turn 50 million gallons of ocean water a day into drinking water on the grounds of the Encina Power Station at Agua Hedionda Lagoon. . . Peter MacLaggan, Poseidon&#8217;s senior vice president, said the decision means the company can begin building the $320 million plant, with the goal of providing water by early 2012. . . The water quality board has required Poseidon to create 55.4 acres of new wetlands in Southern California to provide a nursery for fish and other marine organisms that will be killed in the desalination plant&#8217;s processes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And &#8220;progress&#8221; marches on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/may\/13\/bn13desal115944\/?northcounty&amp;zIndex=98681\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most knew that it was only a formality, but this morning the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board met to vote on Poseidon Resources proposed desalination plant in Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Aqua Hedionda lagoon. And guess what? It was a unanimous approval according to a Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The ruling clears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}