The East Bay Municipal Utility Dist...

The East Bay Municipal Utility District supplies drinking water for portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

The district's long-term water stock plan identifies reclamation of waste water as a feasible alternative to providing just discovered water supplies. The plan includes reclaiming up to 15 mgd of treated wastewater. The North Richmond Water Reclamation Plant is individual of the reclamation projects the district has implemented.

The $31 million plant is single in kind of the nations largest industrial use exhibits and, when compared with the $1000$2000 per-acre-foot sumptuousnesss to develop new potable drinking water services, the concoct is a cost effective -- $800 per-acre-foot -- solution to meeting drinking water demand.

The reclamation plant receives more than five mgd of secondary treated wastewater from the West shire Wastewater District (WCWD) and reclaims the water for use in