CityofSantaBarbara
Source: City of Santa Barbara
The Desal Link project will connect key community water sources by installing an underground pipeline between the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant and water mains connected to the Cater Water Treatment Plant.
This new pipeline will enable desalinated water to reach our entire service area while enhancing system resiliency and improving water quality. Construction will occur on Garden, Sola, Olive, Ortega, Calle Cesar Chavez, and Yanonali Streets.
Local roads will remain accessible to residents but be closed in 3 block sections during active constructions.
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Good to see the city get out there and lay some big pipe
they also repaved hitchcock and then shortly after, dug up near state. they have no systems, somewhat like a second world country.
after 20 years in san diego, i can assure you they ARE building a “to tap” system now and previous writer(RHS) is correct, all our water is from someone’s toilet far enough back. MAS Gaviota is also correct; saying “desal is not energy efficient, and marine life killer at the intake. plus there is sooooo much radiation from fukashima, etc., that desal cannot remove
Who decided that the icon of the Mission should be prominent on this map? Why not the LDS church, the Episcopal Church, the Christian Science Church, the Presbyterian Church, etc. The mission is not Santa Barbara and it is somewhat offensive to see it and its crosses so used.
The mission is a landmark, even for people who detest what it stands for. Those other churches are not as well known. That’s all.
I hope they have some good valves and monitoring systems so that the desal can’t contaminate the other water, in the event of some sort of water quality issue. More plumbing leads to more opportunity for problems. But maybe I’m just imagining highly unlikely issues.
Who decided that the open space across the the mission and rocky nook area gets highlighted on this map? Why not the other parks in town? That park is not Santa Barbara and it is offensive to see it used. I’m mad as h&ll and not going to take it anymore.
Aachoo–there is no need for this “landmark” on this map. It was willfully added and someone did so with purpose. Possibly another member of the in house men’s Christian group that we have heard about lately.
They just spent the last few weeks re-paving Laguna St. Of course the geniuses at the city are going to tear it up and put in a pipeline… How hard is it to check with your right hand before doing this kind of work? They did the same thing on Foothill/192 a few years back. Repaved the road only a few months before they dug it up for pipe replacement… So dumb and a driving force for why most people think the city is run by overpaid idiots…
8:26, perhaps the inclusion of the mission has nefarious intent. I’m not going to worry about it. But you can. I do see your point.
It’s a landmark. I have no ideal where any of the other churches you listed are. Everyone knows the Mission. Really… this is an issue for you? You must be real fun at Parties.
As a retired civil engineering tech of high regard…several of you are missing the point. Agreed that the Mission should not be shown there as the pertinent info would be the end of construction starting point. Looking at the map that is of course the large house with a dog statue in front…any one that’s been here for long or a tourist has seen the dog statue on one of the several Mission tours.
You bring up a great point 8:14. The legacy of European colonialism is extremely hurtful and it is shocking that such an offensive symbol of this dark chapter of history would still feature so prominently in a city generated document. Fortunately, I feel the tide is finally turning and this type of offensive imagery will soon be eliminated. Much work remains to be done. Countless streets need new names, countless buildings and monuments need to be torn down, and countless traditions must come to an end.
I assume — or at least hope — that you are being sarcastic, C of SB, but given how many do seem to feel like that and how ignorant so many are about history, including the doings of, eg., the USSR that tried to erase history, one never knows….
LOL this thread gave me a good laugh.
Nice try Chip, your attempts at satire are mildly amusing but very transparent.
This is in no way offensive!! Seriously…if this is offensive than you are perilously fragile…
I’m an atheist and I like to show my out-of-town friends “the queen of the missions”. I also explain the history of the missions and their role in the oppression of indigenous peoples.
“very transparent” — it’s a window into sociopathy.
Perhaps it is a more befitting symbol than it seems.
We all know the horrors which the Mission Santa Barbara represents..
The atrocities of rape, slavery & public murders…
So now, the salt-water of the ocean, filled with 150yrs of mans poisons..is the last bastion of hope..
It fits.