Some Eastside Santa Barbara residents visiting Ortega Park last week were shocked to find debris and construction equipment — heavy machinery, rows of pipes, cones, and piles of wood, metal, and tools — strewn along the curbs surrounding the park on Salsipuedes and Cota streets. … The construction near the park turned out to be part of the city’s Desal Link Pipeline project, according to Supervising Engineer Carson Wollert. The project is intended to extend the existing pipeline to connect the Cater Water Treatment Plant to the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant on Yanonali Street, starting at the intersection of Mission and Garden Streets and working toward Yanonali.