Thousands Of Orange County Students Learn About STEM Careers And Environmental Topics From Leading Global Experts
The nation’s largest event of its kind celebrated 24 years of educating students about water and the environment in an expanded week-long virtual format. The Youth Environmental Summit (YES), formerly known as Children’s Water Education Festival, is a free virtual field trip featuring live and on-demand programs for Orange County’s third, fourth and fifth grade students. More than 6,600 students from more than 90 Orange County schools registered to attend YES during Earth Week, April 19 through April 23, and approximately 4,500 students tuned in daily during three days of live presentations.
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Poseidon Water came a step closer to building its controversial $1.4-billion water desalination plant on Thursday.
Following hours of deliberation, the Santa Ana Regional Water Board agreed to grant Poseidon a wastewater discharge permit that would allow the project adjacent to the AES power station on Newland Street to move ahead.
On Thursday night after a 10-plus hour meeting, the board voted 4-3 to issue the permit, a compromise proposed by board member Daniel Selmi and dubbed “prohibition with an off-ramp.” The permit would allow the company to operate the facility before all of its permits are granted, a process that would more than likely take years to complete. But Poseidon would have to check several boxes on all five of its proposed mitigation projects before the discharge prohibition is lifted.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District
Published April 22, 2021
Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the 55th U.S. Army chief of engineers, signed the Chief of Engineer’s Report for the Prado Basin Ecosystem Restoration and Water Conservation Feasibility Study April 22 – on Earth Day – at the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. The project aims at restoring more than 600 acres of valuable riparian habitat within the largest riparian forest in Southern California. The project is headed by the Corps’ Los Angeles District, in partnership with the Orange County Water District.