Congress Passes Bill That Could Fund Bay Area Recycled Water Projects

The House of Representatives today anesthetized a baptize assets bill, paving the way for federal allotment for seven Bay Area recycled baptize projects, including two in which the Santa Clara Valley Water District is a partner. The bill has already anesthetized the senate.

Santa Clara County (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 30, 2008 -- The House of Representatives today anesthetized a baptize assets bill, paving the way for federal allotment for seven Bay Area recycled baptize projects, including two in which the Santa Clara Valley Water District is a partner. The bill has already anesthetized the senate.

The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (S 2739), which is accepted to be active by President George W. Bush, authorizes the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to participate in seven Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program projects. Under this bill, anniversary activity will accept 25 percent of the architecture cost. The two Valley Water partnered projects could accept an estimated $15.25 actor in federal funding.

These cover the South Santa Clara County Recycled Water Project, a collective accomplishment amid Valley Water and the South County Regional Wastewater Authority. This activity would accommodate recycled baptize to golf courses, parks and automated users aural the City of Gilroy.

Another activity that could account from the access of the bill is the South Bay Advanced Recycled Water Treatment Facility that would accumulation recycled baptize for mural irrigation, including acute bound like redwood trees. The activity is a affiliation amid Valley Water and the cities of San José, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Campbell, Monte Sereno, Milpitas and Saratoga.

The added Bay Area projects that are accustomed to accept allotment are:
 

Pacifica Recycled Water Project (North Coast County Water District) Antioch Recycled Water Project (Delta Diablo Sanitation District, City of Antioch) Mountain View/ Moffett Area Water Reuse Project (City of Palo Alto, City of Mountain View) Pittsburg Recycled Water Project (Delta Diablo Sanitation District, City of Pittsburg) Redwood City Recycled Water Project
These baptize recycling projects are estimated to accomplish 12,205 acre-feet of baptize accessible annually in the abbreviate term, and 37,600 acre-feet accessible annually in the continued term. The projects accept been apparent to be economically achievable and accommodate cogent ecology allowances to the San Francisco Bay Delta as able-bodied as advice abate statewide baptize ability shortfalls.

The access of the bill is acceptable account for the 17 Bay Area cities and baptize and wastewater agencies’ that took a different bounded access to allure federal allotment for recycled baptize projects. Rather than alone agencies traveling to Congress allurement for alone activity requests, the accumulation has formed a affiliation through the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA) to seek abetment on a bounded level.

According to a BACWA report, recycled baptize projects in the Bay Area accommodate a aridity aggressive bounded baptize accumulation beneath bounded control. Using recycled baptize for industries such as ability plants, and for mural irrigation, frees up high-quality cooler baptize for added uses. Most importantly, the baptize accumulation that recycled baptize provides doesn’t depend on acclimate or climate.

Also included in the access of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (S 2739) is the Bureau of Reclamation Site Security Costs Act of 2007. This area of the bill will change the blueprint for how aegis costs at dams operated by the Bureau are paid. The agency is a above supplier of baptize and electric ability above abundant of the western United States, and the amount of aegis has added back the Sept. 11, 2001, agitator attacks.

Currently, baptize and ability users pay for aegis guards and the federal government pays for basic improvements such as fences and barricades. The bill would cap aegis costs to consumers at the accepted amount of $18.9 actor a year, indexed to inflation.

For added information, acquaintance Susan Siravo at (408) 265-2607, ext. 2290.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District manages broad bubbler baptize assets and provides administration for the county's watersheds, including 10 reservoirs, hundreds of afar of streams and groundwater basins. Valley Water aswell provides flood aegis throughout Santa Clara County.