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Ross

I don't get down to the area to visit but about once a year now, but have been a lifelong visitor of Port A and the area.

Have been hearing/reading a little about the harbor lease in Port A and talks of a shipping terminal out on Harbor Island.

Sounds like quite a bit of opposition from locals in the area. Not having much information on exactly what is proposed and the impacts of the proposal; can some of y'all weigh in on the opposition?

Very curious to know more about what is going on...

Thank you!

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:09 pm Post subject:

The Port of CC proposed Desal Plant, on Harbor Island?

Daily discharge of 95 Million Gallons/Day of 70+ ppt seawater? (That's nearly twice the normal salinity of seawater).

Perhaps that what you are hearing........ recently.

Ross · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:05 am Post subject:

ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:20 am Post subject:

That part about the discharge was pretty hush-hush.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:07 am Post subject:

That's just 1/2 of the equation for the Port.

There is a 2nd proposed de-sal plant on LaQunita Channel, for 50 MGD of approximately the same salinity discharge.

This one worries me more than the Harbor Island one. Harbor Island has a pretty good daily tide to provide a physical mechanism for mixing all that high salt effluent. Not so much so at the dead-end of LaQunita channel. High potential for vertical stratification (no mixing) and hypoxia setting up in the bottom water. Gravity flows (again, high salt content) will move that low DO water eventually, into parts of the north end of CC Bay.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:53 am Post subject:

Check that ^^. As you Were.

The proposed Shipping Terminal on Harbor Island is just that, a way to move large volumes of petroleum products out, and it's what has a bunch of the locals up in arms.......

But, and yes, there is always a 'But", it allows for the construction of power generating capacity/power delivery options - which is the one thing that the proposed desal plant desperately needs to go forward.

So, they are two different things, but linked at the hip via the Port.

Carry On!

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Thanks for the update CS!
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