FINAL REPORT Evaluation of Seawater Desalination Projects ...

EVALUATION OF SEAWATER DESALINATION PROJECTS
PROPOSED FOR THE MONTEREY PENINSULA
Table 5 – MBRSDP 2006 Capital Cost
Construction Costs – Desalination Plant 2006
Site improvements
Seawater Intake Facilities
Pretreatment System
Permeate Conditioning and Disinfection Facilities
Waste Stream Management Facilities
Instrumentation, Monitoring, and Control System
Electrical Supply System
Service and Support Facilities
Yard Piping
Other Construction Costs
Engineering, Construction Management, and Oversight
Permitting
Financing
Startup and Commissioning
Contractor Fees, Insurance, and Bonding
Other Direct Costs
Contingencies
Total Capital Costs $130,000,000
P/SMCSD retained Kennedy/Jenks Consultants to prepare the project information for the
MBRSDP. 44 This information contains a preliminary, planning level capital cost breakdown,
reproduced in Table 6.
The line item cost for the Pumping & Storage Components and Transmission Pipeline are
$14,000,000 and $16,830,000, respectively. If we apply the percentage for the various items
included for the line item Admin, Legal, Engineering and Environmental and the 25 percent
contingency to the above amounts we obtain a total cost for the Pumping & Storage
Components and Transmission Pipelines of $39,027,000.
Although there are no costs shown for right-of-way, the project includes a pipeline between
Moss Landing and the Monterey Peninsula. There would likely be costs for pipeline rightof-way,
even though much of the alignment would be in publicly owned roadways and other
public rights-of-way.
44 North Monterey County Desalination Project, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Decision
Matrix,” 2006.
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