The plan includes building projects at the district’s well sites around the Midcoast that would enhance water quality and storage capacity. Specifically, the plan calls for new storage tanks at the district’s Alta Vista and schoolhouse sites, and demolition of an old tank at the schoolhouse site, which is located east of the district’s headquarters in Moss Beach.
The district also plans to build a water treatment facility at the airport wells.
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Thursday morning, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said the FAA hasn’t heard about the district’s plans at the airport, but said he was skeptical about allowing building there.
“The water district hasn’t formally presented us any plans for a water treatment plant at Half Moon Bay Airport,” wrote Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the FAA, in an e-mail to the Review. “However, we believe that a water treatment plant very likely would be an incompatible use for the airport property.”
The district filed an appeal of the court decision on April 28.
The district is also the object of a lawsuit filed by More Citizens For Safe Water and San Francisco environmental attorney Herman Kalfen that could further hinder its public works projects. Kalfen alleges that the proposed construction at the Alta Vista site ignores hazardous substances in the water and would endanger the livelihoods of threatened wildlife there.
District President Paul Perkovic said Thursday that the district plans to pursue the construction projects, regardless of the lawsuit.
“We want to go ahead as soon as possible with additional storage at the Alta Vista site,” he said. “We want to be able to go ahead with the engineering work and contracting and get that done.”
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