Young Professionals are invited to a special AWWA/WEAU Joint
Young Professionals Tour and Lunch that we have coming up on Tuesday, June
24th. The tour will be of Santaquin City Water Reclamation Facility.
Lunch will be provided at noon at the Water Reclamation Facility, 1215 North
Center Street in Santaquin. This joint AWWA/WEAU tour is limited to 30 people
and will begin around 12:45. We will tour all of the unit processes at the WRF
in addition to visiting the off-site reuse storage ponds and pressure
irrigation pump station. The tour should be completed by 2:30. This is
free for all Students and Young Professionals. But, we do ask that you
RSVP online so that we can plan for lunches.
Beginning in 2007, Santaquin City leaders engaged in a planning
process to address concerns about wastewater treatment within the community.
This effort revealed several key challenges: a lagoon treatment system nearing
capacity; a possible effluent discharge location, Utah Lake, facing increasing
regulatory scrutiny over nutrient impairments; and a secondary water system
that would experience summertime deficits in supply.
With this knowledge, Santaquin City proposed a visionary approach that would
serve to both treat municipal wastewater and generate a new water source for
irrigation within the City’s residential pressurized irrigation system. The new
Santaquin Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) started up in October 2013 and is
based on state of the art membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology to produce the
highest quality ‘Type I’ reclaimed water. Although there are other facilities
in the state of Utah producing Type I water and performing some reuse, the
Santaquin WRF is the first facility in the state that stores and reuses 100
percent of its effluent in a residential secondary irrigation system. With this
project, Santaquin City has established a model for sustainable water resource
development in Utah and the Intermountain West.
Join the YPs on this exciting tour. If you have questions feel
free to contact the YP Chairs:
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