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November 29, 2007
Sewer Water to Drinking Water For Orange County, CA
It has taken 4 years and $480 million, but on December 15th, the world's largest treatment system, the Groundwater Replenishment System, will start production in Fountain Valley, CA.
The Orange County Water District and the Orange County Sanitation District, have managed to overcome public squeamishness, concerns about high costs, and the technical challenges of producing pure drinking water from raw sewage.
When up to running at full capacity the plant should produce about 70 million gallons of drinking water per day for the district's 2.3 million customers in northern and central Orange County. when up to running at full capacity.
"The only other place in the world where they have a comparable plant is in Singapore," Denis Bilodeau, a member of the Water District's board of directors, said Wednesday. "It's maybe a third of the size. And they just built it. They built it emulating ours."
The water produced will be used to stock and replenish water in the County's deep aquifer, as reported by the Orange County Register.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at November 29, 2007 03:57 PM
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Wow, this sounds great! Are more plants of this kind planned or under construction anywhere else in southern California? ALL of our wastewater should be recycled in this way.
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at December 12, 2007 05:21 PM
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