Reclaimed Waste Water System to Serve 8 Cities
A group of Southland cities could be using reclaimed waste water as early as this summer under an agreement signed Wednesday by directors of the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts and the Central Basin Municipal Water District.
Work is to begin next month on the first phase of a $17-million system that will provide 26 miles of pipeline, a pumping station, and water storage facilities to serve the cities of Bellflower, Compton, Downey, Lynwood, Norwalk, Paramount, Santa Fe Springs, and South Gate.
Reclaimed water is sewage water filtered and treated with chlorine until it is safe enough to use on freeway and other landscaped areas, on nursery stock, and in various industrial processes. In some cities, such as Cerritos and Lakewood, which have already built reclaimed water systems, large users such as school districts are buying reclaimed waste water for their lawns and playing fields.
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