A company that specializes in making portable desalination stations announced yesterday that it will set up it’s headquarters in Moss Landing. Desal America, which currently operates out of New Mexico, would complete the move into the former refractory brick manufacturing site, next door to the Moss Landing Power Plant, within a year. The portable desalination stations fit in 20-and-40-foot shipping containers and can be used for industry such as oil and gas production and for desalinating water for human consumption by small communities, resorts and by crews on boats and ocean oil rigs.
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1 arrest was made and 6 citations were issued this week during an on-going camping ban in Santa Cruz. The protestors with the group, Peace Camp 2010, relocated to Santa Cruz City Hall this week from the County Courthouse, where they’ve been demonstrating since July 4th. Homeless activists are calling for an end to the city ban on sleeping outside between 11 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. Protestors say that there isn’t enough space at local homeless shelters for those in need of housing.
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One of the directors with the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency is suing the Agency over an 8-year-old fee on groundwater pumping. Director John G. Eiskamp filed his lawsuit this week seeking to overturn the augmentation fee after the agency won a vote for a new rate structure intended to replace the previously challenged free. Eiskamp believes the agency will not only collect the new rates but continue to bill the $80 fee from 2002 as well.
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An Aptos man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of committing 160 acts of graffiti during the past 18 months. 19-year old Alfonso H. “Pancho” Ramirez has been charged with 5 felony counts and is expected to be arraigned tomorrow. Graffiti cases involved businesses, government property and other sites within the city of Santa Cruz causing damages estimated at $11,700. Graffiti should be reported to local police agencies.
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