Industrial Reuse and Aquifer Replenishment Project

Facing declining water supply, permit changes and industrial growth, the City of Quincy, Washington, is developing a new utility to integrate industrial and municipal wastewater treatment systems. Brown and Caldwell helped assess and develop a program to reuse effluent water with solutions that include sending it to a local industrial user, using it for landscape irrigation and crops, and aquifer recharge in the form of aquifer storage recovery (ASR) using direct recharge. The City can choose the injection location and capture a high volume of water in a small footprint. Water can also be recovered from the aquifer using the ASR well. This program meets future growth and water supply demands for decades to come and creates a near-zero environmental discharge.