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Send TO: city.council (at) surfcity-hb.org
BCC: normw (at) surfcity-hb.org I will monitor activity
Replace the (at) with the (@) symbol.
Thank you.
EASY urgent call for action requested!!!
Request: Please send an email stating your support for the Poseidon
desalination project and request council members vote YES to approve
all of staffs recommendations. Request your comments be included in
the public record as a late communication for their consideration.
Do not show your address or phone number.
The do not need to know you do not live in Huntington Beach, CA.
Many responders for the opposition are not in HB either.
They will not check. They never check anything.
They only tally the number of responses for each side of the issue.
Sample letter with several talking points you may wish to pick and
choose from and add to the basic communication thereby creating
variety to the numerous emails I expect they will receive:
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Send email TO: city.council@s...
Please BCC TO: normw@m...
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TO: city.council (at) surfcity-hb.org
Please BCC TO: normw (at) modernpublic.com
Dear Council Members,
I strongly urge you to vote YES to approve all of your staff recommend
actions for the Poseidon water project because:
You will lose all municipal control and all tax revenues from the
project when the Metropolitan Water District government agency then
takes over and constructs the very same project at the very same
location.
The project has no risk to the taxpayer. It is a privately owned
business.
Huntington Beach will lose a much needed 50 million gallon emergency
water storage facility which would increase public safety in an
emergency to help prevent water disruptions in the event of a
disaster, as was witnessed in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
HB will lose the discounted rate of 5% below the cost of MWD water for
3 million gallons per day of water into our system.
We will be doing our share help to save the wetlands in the Sacramento
Delta watershed, which has been seriously degraded due in part to our
unquenchable thirst for more water.
As you know, protecting wetlands is important issue to many members of
our community.
The project is properly zoned.
It will make improvements to a blighted area without utilizing the
redevelopment agency.
It has no serious long-term negative impacts to the environment or the
community.
It will establish a new business partner which will bring new jobs,
opportunities and prosperity into our community.
Thank you for your consideration of my comments. I ask you place my
comments into the public record as a LATE COMMUNICATION.
Signed, ______________
Background and additional information:
A private company (Poseidon Resources) desires to construct a
saltwater desalination plant in Huntington Beach, CA and turn ocean
water into drinking water. The process narrowly cleared the
Environmental Impact Process (EIR) and now faces the Conditional Use
Permit (CUP) process which is a much more difficult process.
The lefties and greens are a powerful lobbing group here and are now
in a position to curtail this project only through their very
(effective) vocal and persistent lobbing efforts.
The City Council will vote on the issue on 10/17/05.
Your immediate help is urgently requested.
I will inform you of the outcome.
URL for actual agenda item and additional information:
http://www.surfcity-hb.org/Government/agendas/oct1705.cfm
Poseidon website (the good guys)
http://hbfreshwater.com/
The opposition web site:
Thank you for your help.
Norm Firecracker Westwell
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Council Agenda Itme D-4b for 10/17/05
D-4b. (City Council) Part 2 of 2 Parts of Public Hearing Opened/Closed
and Continued from September 6, 2005: Approve Conditional Use Permit
(CUP) No. 02-04 and Coastal Development Permit (CDP) 02-05 for
Seawater Desalination Project (Poseidon) Forwarded by the Planning
Commission. Approve CEQA Statement of Findings and Fact with a
Statement of Overriding Considerations. Approve the Mitigation
Monitoring and Reporting Program. (420.80)
Communication from the Director of Planning and the Director of Public
Works.
Applicant: Poseidon Resources Corporation
Request: To construct a 50 million gallons per day seawater
desalination project including a 10,120 sq. ft. administration
building, a 38,090 sq. ft. reverse osmosis building, a 36,305 sq. ft.
product water storage tank, and miscellaneous accessory structures on
an 11-acre lease area. The proposed improvements include up to four
miles of water transmission lines in Huntington Beach, one mile of
which will be within the Coastal Zone, to connect to an existing
regional transmission system in Costa Mesa. The project also includes
perimeter landscaping and fencing along Newland Street and Edison
Avenue.