The permit was issued. We are filing a petition for reconsideration. As of Feb. 1, our petition, and two others, were being seriously reviewed by the State Water Resources Board. Thanks to hundreds of you who wrote letters. The expansion plan seriously threatens the robust, complex life in this rare coastal estuary, but it may not be too late to stop it.
M oss Landing power plant is the second largest steam plant in the world.
Expanded, it will take more than a billion gallons of cold water every day to cool off its massive turbine engines. Then the hot water is discharged through pipes into the ocean just 600 feet off shore. After a long hard fight to restore Elkhorn Slough to a semblance of its natural state as one of America's greatest wildlife treasures, this plant expansion would turn that around over night. The Regional Water Quality Control Board, Friday, Sept. 15, voted 3-2 to delay approval of the expansion permit. It was continued for better study of the environmental impact, and to conduct a study of the alternative technology for cooling the plant, and for discharging the heated water from the plant into the Marine Sanctuary.