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What would be the size and capacity of the Full-Scale Plant?

April 26, 2017full-scale plant size

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What would be the size and capacity of the Full-Scale Plant?

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The Santa Cruz IWP recommended a full-scale plant to feature a 2.5 million- gallons-per-day (mgd) desalination facility with two potential future capacity increments of 1.0 mgd each, eventually totaling 4.5 mgd. To meet 100% of demand in all years would require initially building a 5.0 mgd facility and expanding it to 8.0 mgd by the end of the planning period, but the IWP concluded it would not pursue any option that delivered average annual demand in droughts.