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Second Desalination Plant for Baja California

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Sandra Dibble

A New York City-based company working with two Mexican partners has launched construction of an ocean water desalination plant in the agricultural region of San Quintin some 160 miles from the San Diego border.

Scheduled to open in the summer of 2017, the plant would provide 5.8 million gallons of water daily to more than 100,000 residents of the region. The cost of the project is about $32 million at current exchange rates. It is the first to be approved under Baja California’s new public-private partnership law.

 

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Late Winter Storms Put Dent in Drought

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Gary Robbins and Lyndsay Winkley

A sliver of the huge weather system that dumped upwards of 5 feet of snow in Northern California angled through San Diego County Monday, bringing soaking rains, damaging winds and flash-bang lightning.

The system seemed to mock the calendar; with spring only two weeks away, snow wafted on to the mountains and foothills, falling all the way down to the 4,100-foot level in Julian. It was the first major system to hit San Diego since late January, when a powerful windstorm caused power outages and toppled trees, one which killed a woman in Pacific Beach.

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