Toilet To Tap Is Here
The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved new regulations for direct potable reuse, AKA “toilet to tap” — that’s when purified water is piped directly from a sewage treatment plant to your home.
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Recent Storms Sent 7 Billion Gallons of Raw Sewage From Mexico Into U.S., Mayor Says
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Fox 5 San Diegoby Salvador RiveraImperial Beach’s new mayor, Paloma Aguirre, is dealing with an old problem in her city: beach closures forced by raw sewage from Mexico.
A recent string of powerful storms in the region has forced lots of raw sewage, trash, tires and other debris across the southern border into California.
Biogas: Not Letting Go to Waste, San Jose Wastewater Facilities Turn Methane Into Power
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Mercury Newsby Elissa WelleAt a sprawling sewage treatment plant in north San Jose, engineers are slowly perfecting the ideal temperature for a smelly mixture of bacteria and human waste as the stew churns inside four massive air-tight cauldrons. The plant, the largest wastewater treatment facility west of the Mississippi to produce water clean enough to be discharged into a sensitive ecosystem like San Francisco Bay, is experimenting with new heat-loving bacteria that excel at turning poop into compost and energy — harnessing the power of dangerous greenhouse gases
A Race to Save the Fish as Rio Grande Dries, Even in Albuquerque
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /AP Newsby Brittany Peterson and Suman NaishadhamOn a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren’t thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust.
For the first time in four decades, America’s fifth-longest river went dry in Albuquerque last week.
RWQCB Approves Camp Pendleton Waste Discharge Order Rescission
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Fallbrook Village Newsby Joe NaimanThe San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board approved a rescission of the waste discharge order for Camp Pendleton’s California Sewage Treatment Plant No. 9.
The 7-0 board vote May 13 eliminates the waste discharge requirements for the Las Pulgas plant which has been replaced.
The RWQCB initially issued a waste discharge order for the plant in 1998. The sewage has since been diverted to Camp Pendleton’s Southern Regional Tertiary Treatment Plant and Northern Regional Tertiary Treatment Plant, which supports the production of recycled water for landscape irrigation and seawater intrusion mitigation.
Between 1999 and 2012 the United States Marine Corps received 12 staff enforcement letters regarding California Sewage Treatment Plant No. 9 and three notices of violation for the waste discharge order. During that time 94 violations for deficient monitoring, overflow events, and exceeding the pH limit occurred. No violations took place during the final seven years of the California Sewage Treatment Plant No. 9 operation.
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