Water Officials OK New Treatment Plant
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
County water officials voted unanimously to spend $159 million to build a water treatment plant in San Marcos that will be the largest of its kind in the world.
The plant is expected to start pumping 100 million gallons of drinking water a day for county residents by April 2008. Construction is to begin next year.
Water officials say county residents face drinking water shortages if the plant is not built, because existing treatment plants are already struggling to meet peak demands.
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