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Fact Sheet MMC Enerl!V Peaker. 3497 Main St.. Chula Vista
I. The location is unacceptable-20 feet from front door of new businesses, 350 feet from
people's homes, 1300 feet from Otay Elementary, 1200 feet from Otay Recreation,
within one mile of 14 schools, a health clinic, a library, and two recreation centers.
2. A peaker should be, according to CV zoning ordinance, in a heavy industrial zone. This
location is a light industrial zone. The existing peaker did not operate for more than 12
months, so it lost its conditional use permit, according to (CVMC:19.64.070).
3. New peaker will have two 70-foot tall smoke stacks, visible above surrounding buildings.
4. New peaker will use between 4.4 and 28 million gallons of water a year.
5. There is a 12,000- gallon tank of ammonia on site.
6. The new peaker would produce between 7 and 25% of the carbon monoxide in the entire
city if approved, making reaching city's carbon reduction goal more difficult.
7. There is no connection with getting rid of South bay Power Plant. (ISO wants peakers in
north county or Orange county.) MMC has no contract with SDG&E and needs to install
two cut-off breakers to ensure it won't overload existing lines.
8. It would be an awful precedent, because new General Plan says no power plants or heavy
industrial uses within I ;000 feet of sensitive receptors.
9. The area within 1,000 feet of the plant is over 90% people of color.
10. The hourly emission rates are higher for SOx, VOC, and PMlO/PM2.5 for the proposed
plant, as compared to the old plant, and it will runmore hours. Particulate Matter (cause of
asthma, heart and lun diseases is articularly high.
Existing peaker 44.5mw
less than 200 hours per year
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PM10/2.5
Proposed peaker 100 mw. 800+ hours/year
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PM10/2.5
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WARNING
THIS FACILITY CONTAINS ONE
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1"0 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO
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Southwest Chula Vista Civic Association
PO Box 6064, Chula Vista, CA 91909
(619) 425-5771, httD://swcvca.org
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MegaWatts Per Square Mile
Incorporated City Area North & South of SR-94
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Fossil Fuel (gas &/or oil)
Mega Watts/square mile, % non-white
by Metropolitan Statistical Region
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35.3% non-white
16.867989 mw per
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North County
East
45.1 % non-
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North City
31.9% non-white
1.344232 mw per square mile
East Suburban
27% non-white
.68346mw per
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66.7% non-white
5.2199081 mw per square
mile
As you can see from map above
incorporated cities south of 94
produce almost 4 times the
electricity as incorporated cities
north of94.
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SANDAG statistical regions and
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South suburban
71.6% non-white
39.733999 mw/square mile