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Table 4.4 RO desalination plants and their costs
#
Plant name, location, and source
Plant size
(MGD)
Average total
cost ($US per
1,000 gallons)
Total cost per
year (in mil-
lions of $US)
Plant #1, USA, using seawater
a
1
0.01
13.42
0.05
Plant #2, USA, using seawater
a
2
0.1
9.88
0.36
Plant #3, USA, using seawater
a
3
1
7.40
2.70
Plant #4, USA, using seawater
a
4
1
1.67
0.61
Plant #5, USA, using seawater
a
5
3
6.64
7.27
Plant #6, USA, using seawater
a
6
3
1.41
1.54
Plant #7, USA, using seawater
a
7
5
1.33
2.43
Plant #8, USA, using seawater
a
8
5
6.36
11.61
Plant #9, USA, using seawater
a
9
10
1.23
4.49
Plant #10, USA, using seawater
a
10
10
6.03
22.01
Plant #11, USA, using seawater
a
11
25
1.21
11.04
Plant #12, USA, using seawater
a
12
25
5.96
54.39
13
Desalination unit at the Chevron
Gaviota oil and gas processing
plant (seawater, USA)
b
0.45
16
2.63
14
Desalination plant in the City of
Morro Bay (brackish water,
USA)
b
1.20
7 (Avg = 1,750/
AF)
3.07
15
Desalination plant in the City of
Santa Barbara, Goleta, and
Montecito (seawater, USA)
b
5 (7,500
AF/year)
7.67
(Avg = 1,918/
AF)
14.00
16
Desalination facility in the Mon-
terey Bay Aquarium (seawater,
USA)
b
0.04
5.53 (1,800/AF)
0.09
17
Desalination facility on the Santa
Catalina Island (brackish water,
USA)
b
0.13
6 (2,000/AF)
0.29
Sand city (seawater, USA)
c, i
18
3
N/A
2.18
6
N/A
3.82
19
MRWPCA Santa Cruz Moss
landing sites (seawater, USA)
c
7
N/A
5.35
14
N/A
9.56
20
RO desalination plant in Florida
(seawater, USA)
5
(25,000 m
3
)
N/A
46.53
21
RO desalination plant in Florida
(brackish water, USA)
5
(25,000 m
3
)
N/A
11.79
22
Design center models (brackish
water, USA)
d
0.26
2.3
0.22
1.06
1.5
0.58
23
Lower Valley Grand Cayman
(seawater, Caribbean Islands)
e
0.4
7.16
1.05
24
Aqua design ltd. (seawater, British
Virgin Islands
1
16.50
6.02
Tartola)
f
—
1
15.80
5.77
(continued)
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