Water Recycling Plant To Be Built In Watsonville
Date：01-07-2006 Source：
| WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- A $26 million recycling plant will be built to serve as an alternative to groundwater that is being contaminated by saltwater seeping into coastal wells. Farmers depend on the wells to irrigate crops. The city and the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency are proceeding with the recycling plant. Walnut Creek-based RMC Inc. engineering is completing final plant designs. It's expected to be operating alongside the city's West Beach Road wastewater treatment plant sometime next year. Coastal landowners received a packet from the agency this week in an effort to gauge the interest in either using recycled water to irrigate crops or resorting to other alternatives, such as using excess water from Harkins Slough. The responses will determine, in part, how many miles of pipeline need to be built along the coast from Manresa State Beach to Elkhorn Slough. Seven miles of pipe have already been built at a cost of $11 million. "We're getting to the point where we're going to start putting these projects out to bid," said Mary Bannister, interim general manager for the water agency, referring to the construction of the recycling plant and pipeline. Water supplies are critical in the Pajaro Valley, where the basin's aquifers have been over pumped in the past decade for a variety of reasons, including a surge in development in Watsonville and the popularity of strawberries and raspberries, which require more water. Seawater has been seeping into the Pajaro Valley's overdrawn aquifer. |
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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