In McCloud, a small town near Mount Shasta in Northern California, Nestle plans to operate one of the largest water bottling plants in the US on the site of an old lumber mill pumping 1,250 gallons a minute of McClouds water!!
In exchange, Nestle has agreed to pay McCloud roughly $350,000 a year for the water and create up to 240 jobs around town (remember what Nestle promised in Florida?)
And even though the paperwork was signed almost five years ago...the plant is still not up and running. McCloud residents are up in arms, furious that their representatives would sign the contract without consulting them. Opponents to the project say it could dry up local aquifers and deplete Squaw Valley Creek, a trout stream and the McCloud's major tributary. It has also been contended that Nestlé's deal may not be a sound one financially for the town.
Here is McCloud's watershed council website with more information.
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