1999 General Plan Annual Review

Community Meetings

You are invited to participate in the City of San Jose 1999 Annual Review of the General Plan. The General Plan is the guide for future land uses in the City to the year 2020. Your comments and your attendance at the public hearings and community meetings are welcome.

• Leininger Center at Kelley Park Thursday, September 9, 1999
  1300 Senter Road 6:30 p.m.
• East Side Union High School District Monday, September 13, 1999
  Board Room, 830 N. Capitol Avenue 6:30 p.m.
• Camden Lifetime Activities Center Thursday, September 16,1999
  3369 Union Avenue 6:30 p.m.

http://www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/planning/sjplan/gplist.htm

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With respect to W. Alvey's posting, I had the same thoughts about the SJ Business Journal article where Joe Guerra and Kent Edens seemed to be singing the Calpine song. The huge carrot Calpine are offering, is the evaporatiion of the San Jose Water Pollution Control Plant's excess discharge problem. They refer to it as recycling however the arrows do not join up in this scheme. South Bay Water Recyling (SBWR) are currently working on the impact of not one but three Calpine plants, Metcalf, Newark and Zanker.

SBWR output = 21 million gals per day = 14,583 gpm
MEC requires 3,716 gpm and more than 80% evaporates
that's 4.2mgd million gallons per day that goes into the air..

Silver Creek Golf course is using recycled water for irrigation at the rate of 380 Acre feet per annum
1 acre foot = 325,851 gal.
380 Acre feet per annum = 0.32mgd

i.e. one 600MW power plant = 13 golf courses.
I don't play golf and don't know how many golf courses there are in San Jose but I don't think there are 39.

One of the eventual goals of The Bay area Regional Water Recycling Program http://www.recyclewater.com is to use reverse osmosis and pump the water back into non direct potable uses, i.e. reservoirs and perc. ponds. But that is some way off and the water discharge crisis is here and now. I remember some one pointed all this out in an earlier posting but it is worth bringing up again.

Was there a back scratching session?
You decide.

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Tim Alton