San Gabriel Valley Water Recycled Project | Treatment Projects | Conjunctive Projects
RECYCLED WATER PROGRAM
San Gabriel Valley Water Recycling Project
As a part of the Upper District's continuing effort to assess the reliability of water service and to augment Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) imported water supply, a direct reuse project has been developed. The Direct Reuse project will supply approximately 1,800 acre-feet (approximately 590 million gallons) of recycled water to irrigation customers in the Whittier Narrows area. For this Direct Reuse project, recycled water will be used to replace groundwater and imported potable water that historically has been used for irrigation at these customer locations.The Direct Reuse project is designed to purchase reclaimed water from the Central Basin Municipal Water District who receives the recycled water from San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant, which is operated by the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles. The recycled water will be wholesaled to San Gabriel Valley Water Company who will sell the recycled water to various customers for landscape irrigation applications. In addition, San Gabriel Valley Water Company will design, construct and operate the distribution pipeline for Upper District.
Upper District has obtained all necessary agreements and the pipeline is 75 to 80 percent designed. Drawings for State Department of Health Services are being prepared for review and approval. The current construction schedule estimate is two months with a possible start date of August 2002.
WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY PROGRAM
The B6 Project, located in the Baldwin Park Operable Unit (BPOU) of the San Gabriel Valley Superfund site, is under construction with an anticipated start-up in late 2002 or early 2003. Early implementation of this critical water supply project and key component in the containment and removal of contamination in the BPOU was made possible by Upper District's past financial participation. Sufficient funding from industries responsible for the contamination and from the federal government has recently been obtained to assure the completion of the project and reimbursement of Upper District's funding.
OTHER OPERABLE UNIT PROJECTS
Local water suppliers are struggling to maintain access to the Main San Gabriel Basin groundwater supply due to the impacts of continuously migrating contamination in many of the Superfund Operable Units in the Valley. In fiscal year 2001-02, Upper District provided funding for the California Domestic Water Company Well No. 14 Project. The Well No. 14 Project is now complete and capable of providing up to 8,000 acre-feet per year of treated water. The proposed budgeted funds will allow the Board to consider additional projects that may provide significant water supply and groundwater remediation benefits. It is anticipated that funds appropriated and expended from this account will be reimbursed as loan repayments or cost recovery actions against parties responsible for groundwater pollution.
