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Does a recycled water facility expansion mean it’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ to the state’s cease-and-desist order?
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Does a recycled water facility expansion mean it’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ to the state’s cease-and-desist order?

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 3, 2025

David Schmalz here. I’ve been to a good number of groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting events over the years, and generally speaking they aren’t …

A recycled water expansion is coming soon to the Monterey Peninsula – desal, not so much.
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A recycled water expansion is coming soon to the Monterey Peninsula – desal, not so much.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 2, 2025

There are multiple water stories happening right now in the Monterey Peninsula, following parallel tracks.

A private meeting about Peninsula water is supposed to lead toward consensus, but consensus remains elusive.
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A private meeting about Peninsula water is supposed to lead toward consensus, but consensus remains elusive.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Aug 1, 2024

Sara Rubin here, thinking about how easy it would’ve been from a journalistic perspective if our team at the Weekly could have simply scored a…

How much water does the Peninsula need to remove the shackles of water poverty?
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How much water does the Peninsula need to remove the shackles of water poverty?

  • David Schmalz
  • Jan 25, 2024

Outside of rare situations involving historic water rights, the State Water Board has prohibited California American Water from setting new wa…

Recycled water to supply Peninsula raises eyebrows from Salinas Valley growers.
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Recycled water to supply Peninsula raises eyebrows from Salinas Valley growers.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jan 11, 2024

In May 2022, Paul Sciuto, general manager of Monterey One Water, was under his house building a shed when he got a call from Brent Buche, then…

Nearly 30 years after Cal Am was ordered to cut back on its pumping of the Carmel River, solutions brought by public agencies might finally end the Peninsula’s water poverty.
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Nearly 30 years after Cal Am was ordered to cut back on its pumping of the Carmel River, solutions brought by public agencies might finally end the Peninsula’s water poverty.

  • David Schmalz
  • Dec 7, 2023

July 1770. Just five weeks after establishing a mission in Monterey, Father Junipero Serra sends out a missive on the departing San Antonio, a…

Cal Am uses rate structure to hold recycled water project hostage.
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Cal Am uses rate structure to hold recycled water project hostage.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Dec 15, 2022

There is a story of water supply on the Monterey Peninsula that Cal Am executives like to tell. Project after project, over decades, has been …

Coastal Commission approves Cal Am's desal plant in Marina, but many hurdles remain.
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Coastal Commission approves Cal Am's desal plant in Marina, but many hurdles remain.

  • David Schmalz
  • Nov 19, 2022

After more than a decade in the trying, a major desalination plant to serve the Monterey Peninsula has cleared a significant hurdle—in theory,…

A judge recommends approving Pure Water Monterey expansion, in what could change the water landscape.
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A judge recommends approving Pure Water Monterey expansion, in what could change the water landscape.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 6, 2022

The future water supply of the Monterey Peninsula got a big boost Sept. 30 when Anne Simon, an administrative law judge appointed by the Calif…

Pacific Grove wrestles with the ups and downs of the water business.
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Pacific Grove wrestles with the ups and downs of the water business.

  • Pam Marino
  • Aug 30, 2021

Nearly five years after Pacific Grove officials broke ground with golden-hued shovels for construction of a wastewater reclamation plant on Po…

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