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P.G. Loves More Recycled Water For Growth

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Enoy that refreshing toilet to the tap water, come heres and tourists

toilet to tap

Council members on Wednesday night directed city manager Matt Mogensen to ask the State Water Resources Control Board to modify a long-standing order that has prevented the installation of new water meters on undeveloped lots and increases in water use at existing addresses where California American Water provides service.

The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District contends — and Pacific Grove agrees — that the prohibition should end because the wastewater recycling project Pure Water Monterey, which went online in 2021 and was recently expanded, will provide plenty of water for the Peninsula for the next several decades.

P.G. Loves More Recycled Water For Growth

P.G.’s Recycled Sewer Water Not Substainable

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Maybe sell some to Nader’s Hotel. Get Moe to drink some on camera.

Point Pinos Sewer Tanks

 

Nearly five years after Pacific Grove officials broke ground with golden-hued shovels for construction of a wastewater reclamation plant on Point Pinos in hopes of creating revenue from the sale of recycled water and water credits, the city is finding out the financial returns aren’t as golden as they had hoped.

The P.G. Local Water Project costs more than the city makes on recycled water. Last fiscal year the city loaned the project $600,000 to make up for less-than-expected revenue since the plant opened in December 2017, according to the 2021-22 budget.

P.G.’s Recycled Sewer Water Not Substainable

Did Climate Change Get Ashley Lauren Paulsworth Arrested?

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Maybe it was just fog.

Police log, August 15, 2021. Domestic abuse and child cruelty according to Monterey Police.

Click this picture for the full police log page:
Ashley Lauren Paulsworth Arrest

Booked at 2032, released at 0405 $20,000 bail.

PAULSWORTH, ASHLEY LAUREN 8/15/21

273.5(A) PC F CRPL INJ:SPOUS/COHAB/DATE
273A(A) PC M CRUEL TO CHLD:POS INJ/DTH

She’s the “Substainability Program Manager” for Monterey County.

Ashley Lauren Paulsworth Report

Did Climate Change Get Ashley Lauren Paulsworth Arrested

To Be Substainable Collect More Tax

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The “S” word again.

The city’s proposed general fund budget shows a growing deficit of $2.4 million for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, $3.5 million for 2021-2022 and $5 million for 2022-2023.

“This is not sustainable and we need to get to a structurally balanced budget, where our income or revenues can adequately pay for our spending or expenditures,” Uslar wrote to the council.

Hotel tax is important because it provides 28% of the city’s total revenue, more than property tax and sales tax combined.

To Be Substainable Collect More Tax

We Are All For Bacteria And Germs

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Caused by poorly washed metal straws.

P.G. has already instituted a voluntary effort for restaurants to stop serving plastic straws, but “we’re looking at a broader scope than just straws,” Garfield said. “We are ratcheting down the use of all single-use plastic.”
The voluntary effort was led by the P.G. Chamber of Commerce and Sustainable Pacific Grove. Jeninni never had plastic straws from the day it opened five years ago. Owner Thamin Saleh said he didn’t know about metal straws when he opened so he didn’t serve any. Today he uses metal straws.

“It’s a personal belief,” Saleh said. “I don’t believe in waste. It has an unnecessary impact on the environment and our oceans”

We Are All For Bacteria And Germs

City Approves Diseases From Restaurants

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Not only do the restaurants substain the gulls, now clean sterile food wrappers are being eliminated.

Cynthia Garfield, city councilwoman for Pacific Grove, said Wednesday that its version of a single-use plastics ban is being crafted in the city’s planning department and will come before the City Council this year.

P.G. has already instituted a voluntary effort for restaurants to stop serving plastic straws, but “we’re looking at a broader scope than just straws,” Garfield said. “We are ratcheting down the use of all single-use plastic.”

City Approves Diseases From Restaurants

See Through Solar At Beach House Restaurant

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Old Bath House Story Poles

Next we will get invisible solar panels. Kind of like those glue on fire sprinklers a contractor once installed all over Monterey.

When you look out over the Monterey Bay from the outdoor patio of the Beach House at Lovers Point, you understand exactly why these are the most sought-after seats at the Pacific Grove restaurant. But managing general partner Kevin Phillips had a conundrum: How to make the 30-some patio seats usable on those foggy, drippy days for which Pacific Grove is famous.

“It turned out that there was a very elegant solution with a great side benefit,” said Phillips.

The answer was the installation of innovative solar panels above the patio — a translucent, weatherproof array that allows sunlight to filter through while also shielding patrons from the weather.

See Through Solar At Beach House Restaurant

Tiny Shed Living Explained

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There’s no sewer or water hookups. Propane stove, solar panels. It’s a substainable  camper trailer that can’t be moved.

Tiny House don't flush

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Real estate broker/owner Amber Russell would like to see the possibilities for tiny homes expanded in Monterey County and beyond, and she’s now working toward that goal.

She’ll speak on “How to Make a Tiny Impact, No Matter the Size of Your Home” at this weekend’s Inspired Home Expo at Monterey County Fair & Event Center, 2004 Fairground Road in Monterey. The expo is free and open to the public this Saturday and Sunday.

“I’ll be talking about what draws people to tiny houses, and also how we can use less energy in our current homes,” said Russell, who has the National Association of Realtors’ Green Designation, specializing in energy efficiency ad sustainability, and is the only Realtor in Monterey County with that designation. She recently launched her own mobile brokerage, Over the Moon Realty.

Tiny Shed Living Explained