Construction begins on $950M East County water purification plant

SAN DIEGO — A groundbreaking was held on Wednesday morning with metropolis and water officers in East County for a new drinking water purification system. The System is a partnership involving four agencies that comprise the East County Highly developed Water Purification Joint Powers Settlement: Padre Dam Municipal Water District, County of San Diego, City of El Cajon and Helix Drinking water District.

The businesses say the plan will create a new, community, sustainable and drought-proof drinking h2o supply utilizing new technologies to purify East San Diego County’s recycled h2o.

The new development is established to be concluded in 2026 with the greatest price of the job getting established at $950 million. It will produce up to 11.5 million gallons of new water for every working day which will account for 30% of latest consuming drinking water requires for East San Diego County citizens.

According to a push release, the method will use four sophisticated h2o purification steps to create drinking water that is near-distilled in top quality. Right after the highly developed water purification method, the purified drinking water will be blended with h2o in Lake Jennings and treated again at the R.M. Levy H2o Procedure Plant just before becoming distributed as ingesting h2o.

The System will be the to start with running recycled drinking water undertaking in East County and the next in San Diego County following Pure H2o Oceanside, which at present presents 20% of Oceanside’s h2o offer. Pure Drinking water San Diego will be the third recycled water undertaking in the county and is scheduled to supply extra than 40% of San Diego’s h2o supply by 2035.

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