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Water Recycling
SRCSD’s cutting-edge Water Recycling Program (WRP) provides an environmentally responsible and safe water supply for non-potable purposes, such as landscape irrigation, industrial uses and environmental restoration. While meeting these needs, increased use of recycled water can reduce the region’s dependence on groundwater and surface water supplies, especially during drought periods and times of high potable water demand and low supply. In addition, water recycling can help with Clean Water Act compliance and meeting future discharge regulations. Since April of 2003, the SRSCD's recycled water has been used at parks, landscaped street medians, and commercial and school sites in the Laguna West, Lakeside and Stone Lakes developments—also known as the Phase I Demonstration project in Elk Grove, CA.
Based on the success of the Phase I Demonstration project, in January 2004, the SRCSD Board of Directors approved the concept for a large scale Water Recycling Project (WRP), which includes the following goals:
- Increase water recycling throughout the Sacramento region on the scale of 30 to 40 million gallons per day (MGD) over the next 20 years.
- Increase utilization of recycled water to expand SRCSD’s effluent management options beyond continued discharge to the Sacramento River.
- Increase utilization of recycled water to meet growing non-potable demands, allowing Sacramento area water purveyors to reduce demands on their existing potable water supplies and reduce the need for additional water supplies in the future.