This 2-day, 1-night tour in the San Diego County included a
private tour of the new Carlsbad ocean desalination plant,
the largest such facility in the Western hemisphere and designed
to increase the San Diego area’s water supply reliability.
Other stops on the tour included San Vicente Dam,
Drought-tolerant gardens, Stone Brewery, Olivenhain Dam, Agua
Hedionda Lagoon, Encina Water Pollution Control Facility, Mission
Trails Regional Park, and the Pure Water San Diego Program
facility. The tour began and ended at the Best Western Plus
Island Palms Hotel & Marina in San Diego.
The Water Education Foundation’s tours are action-packed field
trips that offer participants a firsthand look at the water
facilities, rivers and regions critical in the debate about the
future of water resources. Issues of water supply, water quality,
environmental restoration, flood management, groundwater and
water conservation are addressed by a wide-range of speakers
representing different viewpoints.
As a global leader in consulting, design, design-build,
operations, and program management, CH2M has the human and
technical resources, the international footprint, and the depth
of know-how and experience to help clients achieve success in any
corner of the world.
Nestled along the picturesque
Southern California coastline at Carlsbad, the complex of
buildings that abut the Encina Power Station next to the Agua
Hedionda Lagoon belies the significance of the annals of water
supply in California.
For the first time in five years, the Water Education Foundation
is conducting a tour of key infrastructure and other
water-related sites in San Diego County.
The two-day tour May
19-20 will offer a look at a unique mix of high-tech strategies
to modernize urban water systems and increase resiliency against
future drought and shortages. The tour also will stop at natural
water-related landscapes such as rare coastal wetlands.
