SACRAMENTO REGIONAL COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT
At the end of 2010 , the state of California issued a new set of rigorous water quality guidelines , along with its latest permit for Regional San . Created out of concern for the ongoing health and safety of the Sacramento River where wastewater is safely discharged , as well as a broader concern for water usage in California , this mandate includes heightened regulations regarding ammonia and nitrate removal and stricter guidelines for pathogen reduction .
To meet the requirements within the mandate , Sacramento ’ s wastewater treatment plant needs to improve its ammonia and nitrate removal rate by 2021 and enhance pathogen removal by 2023 . Because its current wastewater treatment facility , which went online in 1982 , does not meet these news treatment requirements , Regional San aims to meet the new mandates with the EchoWater Project , one of the largest public works projects in Sacramento history . With this project , Regional San is on its way to increasing opportunities for
recycled water usage and achieving a higher standard of water quality in the Sacramento River watershed .
FROM PILOT TO FULL- SCALE INNOVATION “ We ’ re calling this major upgrade the ‘ EchoWater Project ’ to reflect how it will take our wastewater and
136 May 2016