Questions and Answers

Would SWRCB Order 95-10 be resolved by Regional Water Project?

How would the Salinas Groundwater Basin be protected?

How is conservation factored into this solution to meet identified water gaps?

How would the Regional Water Project protect the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS)?

Would removing the water shortage constraint promote growth?

How can multiple problems be addressed with a single investment?

What happened to the idea of increasing surface storage on the Carmel River (dams)?

Wouldn’t the water taken out of the ground just create a vacuum to pull more seawater in?

Where does the Monterey Peninsula Management District’s seawater desalination plant fit into this picture?

Will the project benefit fish and habitats or are there adverse impacts on them?

Does the regional water supply program respond to the need to re-balance inputs and outputs of Seaside basin groundwater?

What amount of additional water supply would be provided with the project?

Does this project maximize the use of fresh water sources to reduce the use of desalination?

Does this water supply project help to restore flows to the Carmel River?

"By focusing on a regional program, the Regional Water Project has produced a brilliant & quite elegant proposal— it is significantly less expensive than alternative proposals, environmentally friendly and physically feasible to build in phases in much less time (years vs. decades) ... than the Coastal Water Project desal plant proposed at Moss Landing!"

— Tom Rowley, Vice President,Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association