Water District Gets 2 National Awards
The county’s largest water supplier, Calleguas Municipal Water District, recently picked up two national awards for innovation in public works projects.
The American Public Works Assn. is recognizing Calleguas for the district’s construction of a $25-million water-treatment facility at its Lake Bard reservoir.
The plant’s disinfection process removes microorganisms such as giardia and other viruses using ozone gas injections to oxidize impurities in the water.
The association is a nonprofit group with a membership of 25,000 throughout the United States and Canada.
The district’s second award came from the American Water Resources Assn., which named Calleguas the recipient of its 1996 Sandor C. Csallany Institutional Award for its Las Posas Basin Aquifer storage project. As part of its effort to drought-proof the county, Calleguas began drilling wells in the Moorpark area this spring to pump excess water into the aquifer.
Eventually, the district will be able to store 300,000 acre-feet of water in the basin. One acre-foot of water is about 326,000 gallons.
Calleguas serves 500,000 customers in Ventura County, including Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Port Hueneme and parts of Oxnard and Camarillo.
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