Pacific Aquarius / Concept dossier
Oregon seawater.
A Great Salt Lake destination.
A destination-scale public work
Bring seawater from Oregon’s west coast to the Great Salt Lake and build a resort-style destination around the water infrastructure. The goal is to turn a public expense into a profitable venture.
Discuss the conceptThe vision in pictures
Make the dream legible.
The illustrations are concept plates: a cinematic argument for scale, public imagination, and a working system beneath the spectacle.
The ocean becomes the opening move.
The core proposal brings seawater from Oregon’s west coast to the Great Salt Lake. Route selection, pumping, energy, and lake impacts require independent engineering and environmental study.
Infrastructure with a public face.
A destination resort inspired by Disneyland’s scale and immersive visitor experience would sit alongside the proposed waterworks, bringing hospitality, recreation, and attractions into the project’s commercial model.
A new icon for western water.
The concept is a working public work with the cultural gravity of a destination: clear enough to understand, serious enough to engineer.
Pump the ocean inland.
An Oregon Coast intake would move seawater directly to the Great Salt Lake through a dedicated conveyance corridor.
Treat at the reserve.
The restored lake feeds one large-scale desalination and treatment plant. The plant separates freshwater from the saline purge and manages both as engineered outputs.
Deliver where demand is real.
Finished water moves through regional storage, municipal, agricultural, industrial, recharge, and emergency delivery nodes.
Project scope / working thesis
One source.
One reserve.
One network.
01 / Source
Oregon Coast seawater intake and pump works.
02 / Conveyance
Direct seawater movement from Oregon to the Great Salt Lake.
03 / Treatment
Large-scale desalination, freshwater production, and saline purge management.
04 / Destination resort
Hospitality, recreation, attractions, and visitor experiences envisioned as a revenue engine for the waterworks.
Water estimate
9.3B gal/day
Screening figure; measurement point is undefined. It is not a delivered freshwater forecast.
Capital frame
$100B–$250B
Planning range only; refine through route, power, land, plant, and delivery estimates.
Commercial ambition
A profitable destination
Evaluate resort and visitor revenue alongside potential water services against construction, financing, and operating costs.
Order-of-magnitude concept figures only. No cost, volume, route, energy, environmental, or delivery estimate is an engineering commitment.
The proposition
Turn a public expense into a destination with earning power.
The proposal combines Oregon-to-Great Salt Lake seawater infrastructure with a destination resort inspired by Disneyland. Profitability is the ambition; demand, cost, financing, and operational studies must establish whether it can be achieved. Disneyland is a reference for the visitor experience, with no Disney affiliation claimed.
Concept only / subject to engineering, environmental, regulatory, and commercial review
For concept discussions: chillertechusa@gmail.com
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