32 Years of Indirect Potable Reuse in El Paso, Texas
Category: Water Treatment
Written By: Mark Sanchez, PE
Date: June 9, 2017
Because of this plant, the life of the city’s groundwater resources has been extended significantly and it remains a key component of the city’s overall water resource management portfolio. This report will review the plant’s design and treatment cost from its early years of operation, its current cost of treatment, compare these treatment costs to that of the Orange County Ground Water Replenishing Facility, formerly the Water Factory 21 Facility, and show how cutting-edge research being done on the plant’s biologically activated carbon filters continues to keep this plant in the forefront of innovation.
