Documents Related to the Proposed Poseidon Huntington Beach Ocean Desalination Plant
The Surf City Voice received thousands of documents from the Orange County Water District’s response to recent Public Record Act requests....
OCWD: Poseidon’s Role in Hidden Committee Meetings Explained
Kennedy said that there is a reason for Poseidon’s involvement in the meetings—which are closed to the rest of the public—and there’s nothing illegal about...
Water District’s Spurious ‘Ad Hoc’ Committee Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Project
California law says that the OCWD belongs to the people, but some board members think it's all theirs....
Water District Budget Passed at ‘Worst Public Meeting Ever’
“There was very little information given to the public,” he complained. “That was the worst run public meeting I have ever witnessed.”...
OCWD Rate Increase: ‘Sucking it Up’ Will Lower Ratepayer Costs and Fill the Basin
OCWD continues to cover the costs (nearly $800,000, so far) of investigating a billion-dollar ocean desalination project that would raise the RA by hundreds of...
OCWD Pressured to Hold Back Rate Increase
The RA has increased 72 percent in the past five years. Cities pass the cost to residents, 30 percent of whom “live in disadvantaged communities...
Water Board Pushes Billion-Dollar Desal Plant But Refuses to Consider Cheaper Alternatives
Pro-Poseidon members of the OCWD BOD gave false information to the State Lands Commission....
OCWD Board Blocks Poseidon Study & Misleads State Commission
The OCWD board has precluded its staff from reporting back about project alternatives, instead glibly promising to study them after all but signing a final...
Poseidon and OCWD: Manufacturing Consent at State Lands Commission Hearing
The records we received showed conclusively that what OCWD sent this Commission was put together with the sole intent to mislead you. It is NOT...
Conservation Vs. Ocean Desalination: Dual Water Board Director is Poseidon’s Point Man
Shawn Dewane of Costa Mesa is the free-marketeer point man for Poseidon Resources, the water dealer that wants to combine public and private funds to...