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Print ArticleSacramento, CA: The Nestle Co. has just announced that it is scaling back plans in Northern California to build what had been planned as the country's largest water bottling plant.
“With soaring fuel and transportation costs, building a one million-square-foot facility at the base of Mt. Shasta no longer makes economic sense,” explains David Palais, Nestle's Northern California natural resource manager.
Palais says that a new plant Nestle recently built in Denver, as well as the expansion of other facilties in the West, makes a large plant in California less necessary.
Nestle SA signed a contract in 2003 with the McCloud Services District to pump up to 521 million gallons of water a year. In exchange, the company agreed to pay between $250,000 and $350,000 a year to the town of McCloud.
Nestle will now ask for just 200 million gallons of water a year from the three natural springs that supply McCloud. The new plant will measure 350,000-square-feet.