Municipalities working in partnership to investigate a seawater desalination facility for the Coquina Coast of Florida

Phase 2A of the Coquina Coast Project was a partnership among the cities of Palm Coast, DeLand, and Leesburg; St. Johns County and the St. Johns River Water Management District.

These entities were working together cooperatively as a region to investigate and develop sustainable water supplies that will benefit the region’s environment and economy. By taking advantage of economies of scale and sharing the costs of more expensive supplies, local governments can ease the financial impact to residents and businesses.

Project partnership may change when Phase 2B work resumes in approximately 2014.

This project is being evaluated by a team of worldwide desalination and environmental experts, including:

Malcolm Pirnie
Malcolm Pirnie is one of the largest consulting firms in the United States focused exclusively on water and environmental issues. Malcolm Pirnie is the lead consulting firm for the Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Project.

Veolia Water
Veolia Water is a global provider of technology, engineering, design, project management, construction and operation of water treatment facilities. With more than 800 installations, Veolia Water has the largest seawater desalination capacity in the world, representing 20 percent of the world’s total desalination capacity.

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM)
Sinclair Knight Merz is a leading global project delivery firm with more than 6,000 employees worldwide who specialize in environmental science, engineering, planning, economics, hydrogeology and social science.

RosTek Associates
RosTek Associates is the project team’s membrane and desalination technology consultant. RosTek was founded by Ian Watson, one of the world’s foremost membrane technology experts, with more than 20 seawater reverse osmosis projects to his credit.

Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University performs ongoing research in coastal concentrate plume modeling and will assist the project team with concentrate management.

Janicki Environmental, Inc.
Handling marine biology and estuarine ecology for the project team, Janicki Environmental has expertise in estuarine and freshwater ecology, watershed management, water quality modeling and assessments, hydrodynamic modeling and other environmental analysis. The firm performed studies that enabled the successful permitting of seawater intake and concentrate discharge for the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant.

Dialogue Public Relations
Dialogue Public Relations specializes in public information and involvement programs for public works projects.

Halcrow, Inc.
Specializing in planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide, Halcrow constructed the intake and concentrate discharge tunnels for the Gold Coast desalination plant. Halcrow will handle tunnel design and maritime constructability for the Coquina Coast project.