- Tell the RWQCB why you care about/depend on healthy marine resources in the Santa Barbara Channel and ask them to fulfill their mandate to protect those resources.
- Urge the RWQCB to conduct or require a present-day analysis of the feasibility of a subsurface intake – not one based on the best technology available in 1991 – and to require the City to use a subsurface intake if it is found to be feasible in order to minimize the mortality of marine life caused by the City’s desalination plant.
- Urge the RWQCB to require the City to implement the best mitigation feasible to minimize the intake and mortality of all forms of marine life caused by the City’s desalination plant as required by the California Water Code by accurately quantifying and fully offsetting that mortality.
- Desalination Fact Sheet
- The RWQCB hearing agenda (see Item No. 9)
- The RWQCB’s Staff Report on the item
- The RWQCB’s Draft Permit Amendment (skip to Attachment G starting on page 131)
- Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s Comment Letter on the Draft Permit Amendment
- The RWQCB’s response to our comments
- The City of Santa Barbara’s Comment Letter