In summer 2011, the City of San Diego opened the Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Facility, a small-scale, state-of-the-art facility that purifies one MGD of recycled water. The facility is one component of the City’s Water Purification Demonstration Project that is examining the safety and cost of purifying recycled water. San Diego is examining water purification […]
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Marines to Recycle Wastewater in San Diego for Landscape Irrigation
The Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San diego is pioneering a type of on-site wastewater recycling system. It will divert 10,000 gallons of sewage at the base each day, treat it to state standards and pump it through irrigation lines to the roots of landscape plants. If all works according to plan, passers-by won’t notice […]
West Basin to use Ozone Pretreatment for Water Reclamation
West Basin’s Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo, CA will be undergoing its fourth expansion since its original construction in 1995. The facility which currently produces 30 million gallons per day (MGD) is being expanded by an additional 16 MGD. Under the expansion, water purification facilities will be expanded to produce an […]
New Reports from the WateReuse Research Foundation on Advanced Oxidation
The following reports have been recently published by the WateReuse Research Foundation: Low Cost Treatment Technologies for Small Scale Water Reclamation Plants (WRF-06-008) This study identifies and evaluates established and innovative technologies that provide treatment of flows of less than one million gallons per day. The report includes an extensive cost database, where the cost […]