Drought-Stricken California Island to Increase Fresh Water Supply with GE's Desalination Technology
01 September 2015 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
- Catalina Island Will Defer, and
Possibly Avoid, 50 Percent Water Rationing with the Expansion
- New GE Desalination System to Produce
up to an Added 150,000 Gallons of Water per Day by Treating the
Concentrated Seawater from the Existing Desalination Reverse
Osmosis System
Located in the Pacific Ocean, 22 miles southwest of Los Angeles,
Catalina Island, California, is in the middle of a severe drought
with residents and tourists potentially facing a mandatory 50
percent cutback in water usage. To help alleviate the water
shortage, Southern California Edison (SCE) is expanding its
desalination plant on the island using GE's (NYSE: GE) advanced
desalination technology that will convert seawater into clean
drinking water.
GE is supplying its SeaTech*-84 seawater reverse osmosis (RO)
system, part of GE’s Procera* seawater solutions for desalination,
to SCE. The SeaTech system is a containerized desalination system,
which will be configured for continuous operation, treating
unusable seawater into a new, clean source of fresh water. GE’s
SeaTech-84 is a modular system designed for a fast delivery and
simple installation. The equipment, arriving in Catalina in
mid-August, will be operational in September 2015.
“Our residents and businesses have already made substantial
water usage cutbacks to help conserve this precious resource during
the drought,” said Ben Harvey, City Manager, City of Avalon,
California. “The new desalination unit will significantly increase
our freshwater supply and hopefully stave off additional water
usage restrictions.”
The island's current water supply comes from local wells,
supplemented by the desalination plant located at the SCE Pebbly
Beach Generating Station. The existing desalination facility
produces up to 200,000 gallons of water per day, and with this GE
expansion, the overall future capacity will increase to up to
350,000 gallons of water per day.
Catalina Island is a popular tourist destination. The island is
22 miles long and 8 miles wide and has more than 4,000 residents
and 700,000 visitors annually. In August 2014, SCE implemented 25
percent water rationing for Catalina Island.
“Even an island in the Pacific Ocean can experience a severe
drought. Catalina Island has an immediate and urgent need for
additional fresh water. The GE SeaTech-84 seawater RO desalination
system is a smart choice for Catalina Island due to its fast
delivery and set up so that the island can begin using the
additional fresh drinking water during the summer tourist season,”
said Yuvbir Singh, general manager, engineered systems—water and
process technologies for GE Power & Water.
GE has a long history of manufacturing, installing and operating
desalination systems and its global installed capacity is over 264
million gallons per day of fresh drinking water.
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About GE Power & Water
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power generation, energy delivery and water process technologies to
solve their challenges locally. Power & Water works in all
areas of the energy industry including renewable resources such as
wind and solar; biogas and alternative fuels; and coal, oil,
natural gas and nuclear energy. The business also develops advanced
technologies to help solve the world’s most complex challenges
related to water availability and quality. Power & Water’s six
business units include Distributed Power, Nuclear Energy, Power
Generation Products, Power Generation Services, Renewable Energy
and Water & Process Technologies. Headquartered in Schenectady,
N.Y., Power & Water is GE’s largest industrial business.
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