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Santa Barbara Gets Major Grant To Help Defray Costs Of Desalination Plant

A South Coast city has received a major state grant to help offset some of the costs of reactivating its desalination plant.

Santa Barbara’s desalination plant went online last spring, after $72 million dollars worth of work to modernize, and reopen the more than two decade old facility.

The plant produces three million gallons of drinking water a day, or enough to meet about 30% of the city’s annual water demand.

The California Department of Water Resources has given the city $10 million dollars to help defray some of the project’s costs.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.