The City of Camarillo’s largest capital improvement project, the North Pleasant Valley Groundwater Desalter, received a permit to operate from the State Division of Drinking Water and is now delivering high-quality water to City water customers.
"THE commitment and persistence of so many individuals and agencies has taken this remarkable project from a conceptual idea to the reality that it is today,” said City Manager Greg Ramirez. “What a monumental achievement for Camarillo.”
At present, the Desalter is blending one million gallons of water per day with the City’s other sources of groundwater and imported water. Over the next two months, production will steadily increase to reach the Desalter’s full capacity of nearly four million gallons per day.
“It’s been a long, complex undertaking to get to this point of accomplishing the relatively simple goal of transforming unusable brackish groundwater into a local source of high quality and affordable drinking water for City water customers,” shared Camarillo Public Works Director Dave Klotzle.
The Desalter will reduce Camarillo’s reliance on costly imported water by transforming previously unusable brackish groundwater into high-quality potable water while removing damaging salts from the regional watershed. Since the mid-1990s, the City of Camarillo needed to…
