14 CA Schools go Purple with Recycled Water
The city of Corona, Cal., is planning to use recycled water at 14 of its schools for irrigation purposes. The city has already installed 27 miles of purple recycled-water pipelines in 2006 and Jonathan Daly, general manager of Corona?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s Department of Water and Power, said that city parks are already being irrigated with recycled water. The treated water comes from toilets and drains, and is first sent to wastewater plants where it undergoes a bio-treatment, filtration and disinfectation process before it is routed in the purple pipes to be used for irrigation.
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The schools will be tested over the next year to ensure that the drinking-water and irrigation pipelines are clearly separated. To do this, each water supply has to be run separately to be tested to make sure there is no crossover between the lines.
Santiago High, one of the 14 schools, used on average 2.7 million gallons of water a month for irrigation, costing about $5,900. The school will save approximately $15,000 a year in water bills through the recycled water program.
Source: Water Technology Online
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