Testing for desalination plant suspended

Testing for the future Camp Pendleton seawater desalination plant has been suspended.

The San Diego County Water Authority did not take a vote at the Sept. 27 SDCWA board meeting, but a presentation by CWA water resources department senior engineer Jeremy Crutchfield at the CWA’s Water Planning Committee that day said that the demand from the State Lands Commission for an Environmental Impact Report would require beyond what has been budgeted for the testing.

“We hit the pause button,” Crutchfield said.

The Camp Pendleton desalination project would be developed in 50 million gallons per day in...