Doheny Ocean Desalination Plant

open for bidding

Located on a 30-acre site near San Juan Creek, about 2,500 ft from the beach north of Pacific Coast Highway. It will have 4-5 MGD capacity. As planned, three slant wells at Doheny State Beach would draw water from beneath the ocean floor, with about 90% of the water coming from the ocean and 10% from water that drains to the ocean from San Juan Creek. The facility will include buildings and structures used for pretreatment, chemical storage, reverse osmosis, energy recovery systems and post-treatment water conditioning necessary to meet drinking water standards, and connections to allow off-site disposal of brine. It will also include an administration building that would house offices, a control room and laboratory.