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September 2, 2010
The Honorable Cathy Green
Mayor
City of Huntington Beach
2000 Main Street
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
RE: Huntington Beach Desalination Project - Supporter Cards
Dear Mayor Green:
It is with great pleasure that 1 am delivering to you 4,709 postcards signed by residents of Huntington
Beach and Orange County in support of the proposed Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination
Project. I respectfully request that you include the supporter postcards as part of the administrative
record for the Tuesday, September 7, 2010 public hearing on the proposed desalination project.
These postcards have been collected at numerous community education events in Huntington Beach
and throughout Orange County from 2005 through August 2010 Events attended by Poseidon's
outreach team have included Huntington Valley Little League Opening Day; Senior Saturday; the
Duck-A-Thon; Movie Fridays at Rodgers Senior Center; Huntington Beach Education Foundation's
Open Doors home tour; Rainbow Disposal's Earth Day; Huntington Beach Chamber's Green Expo;
various civic presentations in Huntington Beach and greater Orange County; golf tournaments
benefiting the Council on Aging and the HB Fire Association; the Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington
Valley dinner and silent auction; the Huntington Beach Rotary Sweethearts Bali and Science
Showtime; YMCA's Healthy Kids event, and many others.
Approximately 1,500 postcards alone have been collected since the City initiated the Subsequent
Environmental Impact Report process late last year, and approximately 50 of the cards being
submitted to you today are from a community event held at the AES Huntington Beach facility this
past Saturday, August 28th. The AES event was particularly exciting because it was attended by
scores of residents of Southeast Huntington Beach. Our team received overwhelmingly positive
comments from attendees, and the opportunity to speak with the local neighbors was rewarding.
These signed postcards are a reflection of the broad support for the project throughout Huntington
Beach, as documented by recent public opinion surveys and the project's growing number of
individual and organizational endorsements The growing support from the community also shows the
need and enthusiasm for a new, drought -proof water supply
I look forward to the public hearing on Tuesday, September 7th and welcome the City Councils
questions and comments about the proposed desalination project.
Sincerely,
Scott Maloni
Vice President, Poseidon Resources
CC' City Council
Ricky Ramos 9/-7//o
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