Past Breakfast Connection Speakers
February Breakfast Connection Speaker Capt. McNamara LAPD, Harbor Division
Capt. McNamara’s informed the attendees at the breakfast connection her job is to make the
community a safer place, build community trust with high visibility, reorganize and redesign.
The department has started community roll calls. The LAPD will join forces with the Sheriff’s Department.
You will see them patrolling the area, blurring the borders and rolling into different communities.
Her motto is “You can run but can not hide from Joan McNamara.” She is determined to eradicate the
hate crimes in the Harbor Gateway area... Watch out 204th street!
March Breakfast Connection Speaker David Wright, Plains American Pipeline
Mr. Wright spoke about the delay of building Pier 400 and the decline of our oil production in California. It appears Pier 400 is strategically placed to keep our surrounding communities safe. We have the deepest safe harbor in the U.S. at a depth of 81 feet. “Pier 400, berth 408 will incorporate the latest and most effective environmental safeguards through state of –the-art design, construction and ongoing operatios making it among the most envornmentally – sensitive, deep water terminals.” “The project has the capacity to supply 25% of today’s petroleum needs of Southern California.”
For more information visit their web site www.pacificenergy.com.
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West Basin Water Recycling Facility Receives Visit From Down Under
Member of Australian Parliament Seeks Information on Alternate Water Sources
Carson, CA – Though Australia is a 24-hour plane ride from Southern California, the two areas
share similar issues when it comes to facing a dwindling water supply. So when John Day, Member of
the Parliament of Western Australia and Shadow Minister for Water Resources, made a visit to the
United States, he made sure to take a tour of the West Basin Water Recycling Facility (WBWRF),
the largest water recycling facility of its type in the nation.
The Western Australian Parliament is currently considering a proposal to treat wastewater and
reinject it into a major drinking water aquifer. With this proposal on the table, Day wanted to
learn more about purifying water to an ultra-pure level, which West Basin does on a daily basis.
The WBWRF is the only facility in the nation capable of producing six types of water custom-made
for its users, including a type of water that is almost of distilled water quality.
“West Basin is at the forefront of water recycling, and we are thrilled to share the information
we have with other water agencies, national and abroad,” West Basin Board President Donald L. Dear
said. “One of the issues that we all share worldwide is maintaining a reliable water supply, and we
can all learn from one another. We are always happy to share what resources we have.”
Since it was built in 1994, the WBWRF has been a model for water recycling facilities throughout
the world. West Basin hosts groups varying from foreign dignitaries and elected officials to school
children and has hosted dignitaries from several different countries including Egypt, Australia,
China, Cyprus, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco and Africa. The WBWRF provides recycled
water to more than 215 users in the South Bay for commercial, industrial and landscape-irrigation
uses. For more information on West Basin’s water recycling program, please visit www.westbasin.org.
West Basin is a public agency that wholesales imported water to cities, mutual water companies,
investor-owned utilities and private companies in the South Bay and unincorporated areas of Los
Angeles County, serving a population of nearly a million. In addition, West Basin provides the
region with recycled water for municipal, commercial and industrial uses. Formed in 1947, West
Basin is committed to ensuring a safe and reliable water supply for the region.
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