Roughly a half-dozen agencies, governments and a nonprofit group have filed briefs with a state regulator that could determine whether or not California American Water Co. gets the OK for its years-long effort to build a desalination plant on the Monterey Peninsula.
With less than two weeks to go before the March 5 Primary Election, the races for Monterey County supervisors has come down to a single battle in District 5.
One of the Coastal Commission’s conditions is approval by the CPUC before the desal project can break ground. But in the Coastal Commission’s staff report recommending approval, it concludes that while the Pure Water Monterey Expansion will produce enough water in the short term to meet growth demands, in the long run an additional water source will “likely” be needed.
In May 2022, Paul Sciuto, general manager of Monterey One Water, was under his house building a shed when he got a call from Brent Buche, then-general manager of the
July 1770. Just five weeks after establishing a mission in Monterey, Father Junipero Serra sends out a missive on the departing San Antonio, a Spanish ship, asking the powers that