Monday, February 25, 2013

USA, California:

Water District Casa Diablo Geothermal Plant Plans Could Hurt Mammoth Water Supply (Sierra Wave Media)

Mammoth-Pacific Geothermal Power Plant. (Courtesy GTO)

Mammoth Community Water District officials say that the proposed Casa Diablo Geothermal plant expansion could harm both groundwater and surface water resources used to serve the community of Mammoth Lakes.

Casa Diablo Geothermal officials have gone through the environmental investigation of their expansion plans and Mammoth’s Water District has responded. In a press release, the Water District says the geothermal expansion project proposes the development of 16 production and reinjection wells along with a “significant increase in geothermal fluid pumping.” The release also says that several of the proposed new wells are within two miles of the District’s groundwater production wells.

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