CITY EYES REUSING WATER TREATED EFFLUENT WOULD BE USED IN LANDSCAPING.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - By summer, as much as 500,000 gallons of water a day that has gone down Lancaster's drains and toilets could be irrigating ballfields and other city landscaping. Plans are moving forward with a $2.2 million project to irrigate ir·ri·gate v. To wash out a cavity or wound with a fluid. city landscaping using recycled water from the Lancaster Reclamation Plant. The treated water would meet state standards as clean enough to swim in, though not to drink. ``We're making good progress with it,'' said Randy Williams For the baseball player, see . Randy Williams (born 23 August,1953) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. He competed for the United States in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the long jump where he won the gold medal. , Lancaster's director of public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. . ``We have made major progress with the design for the first segment, which will travel along Division Street.'' Lancaster officials hope by spring to lay a 24-inch diameter pipeline that connects to a sewage treatment Sewage treatment Unit processes used to separate, modify, remove, and destroy objectionable, hazardous, and pathogenic substances carried by wastewater in solution or suspension in order to render the water fit and safe for intended uses. plant pipeline at Avenue E and runs 4.5 miles down Division Street to Lancaster Boulevard. Lateral pipelines up to 12-inch in diameter would branch off this main line to serve specific users. Lancaster officials originally had planned for a 16-inch diameter pipeline, but went with a bigger pipe at the request of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials, who envision other places to use the water will be found. ``The region has embraced the idea of a region-wide system,'' Williams said. ``The county will connect with the Division Street project.'' Plans for the project are being reviewed by the state Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
Tentatively, city staffers expect to be able to award a construction contract in February, Dassler said. In the near term, the recycled water would be used for irrigating the baseball complex the city is developing at the former Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. and for watering a cemetery and school fields, as well as for controlling dust at the Lancaster Landfill. In the long term, recycled water could be used for irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. of median strips and other landscaped areas, dust control for construction areas, and irrigation for the landscaping of new home and commercial developments. At first, the water to be carried by the pipeline will be so-called tertiary treated effluent from a Los Angeles County Sanitation District 14 plant that now sends water into the lakes at Apollo Park. The sanitation district expects to be able to provide additional treated effluent from a research treatment project that should be ready next fall. ``Between the two sources, we could make 1.5 million gallons a day available for their needs,'' said Charles Boehmke, head of the sanitation district's planning department. Eventually, the city could use as much as 5 million gallons a day of recycled water. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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