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More recycled water may flow in Glendale: Draft plan would double number of pipes, but council questions how to fund project

Posted by: Maven on January 21, 2010 at 2:07 pm

From the Glendale News Press:

“Glendale Water & Power officials may study ways to ease the burden on private customers who want recycled-water connections, an idea the City Council endorsed earlier this week.

Under the utility’s draft plan, the city’s recycled-water pipeline would be doubled to accommodate 36 additional users, including Glendale Memorial Hospital, the Walt Disney Co. campus, and local parks and schools.

Utility officials said increasing the city’s use of recycled water — which cannot be used for human or animal consumption, but can be for things like cleaning and irrigation — would increase reliability and decrease dependence on expensive imports from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies up to 70% of the city’s water.

While Glendale Water & Power has 21 miles of recycled-water pipeline, the utility uses less than half of its allotment of recycled water from the treatment plant, with the rest of it disposed of in the Los Angeles River, officials said. … “

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January 21, 2010 · Filed Under Recycled Water, Southern California

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