Three Recent California and Nevada Supreme Court Decisions About Water Rates
There has been 3 recent Supreme Court municipal water rates rulings within the past 2 1/2 years; two in California, and one in Nevada. One decision each in California and…
Water Reuse for a Sierra Nevada Resort Community
The Mammoth County Water District (District) is a small water agency located in the eastern portion of central California. Figure 1 shows its relative location. The District provides virtually all…
California Drought–Are We Ready for the Next One
The winter of 1986-87 provided record low amounts of runoff in many of the watersheds that serve as California’s water supply. The winter of 1987-88 was not much better. It…
Integrated Wastewater System Investigation and Planning for Dallas Water Utilities
Attempting to address and solve the wastewater needs of a metropolitan area the size of the City of Dallas is like trying to predict the path and direction of a…
Conserving Water Through Residential Water Audit and Leak Detection Programs
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California had three residential water conservation programs developed and pilot tested in its service area in 1986-1988. This paper reports on two of those…
Management Alternatives for Channel A, A Flood Bypass Canal
This paper presents management alternatives for improving water quality in a man-made bypass canal given a local utility’s plan to increase point source discharge of highly treated domestic wastewater. In…
Biotreatment of Contaminated Groundwater with High Organics and Salinity Contents
A large chemical company is closing the evaporation ponds at its agricultural chemical complex on the West Coast. Because of contamination groundwater remediation will be part of the closure activates….
Design Of The Lower Kula Water Treatment Plant
Water for the up-country areas of Maui is supplied through a series of three parallel systems which wrap around Haleakala from north to west. These systems obtain water from the…
San Diego Water Reclamation Plan Update
This paper discusses the past four years of effort toward developing a water reclamation and reuse plan for the San Diego Metropolitan Sewerage System. It describes the projects to be…
First Wastewater Desalting Plant in Central Coast, California
This paper describes a 144.6 liter/second (L/s) (3.0 million gallon per day (mgd)) water reclamation plant and a 35 L/s (0.8 mgd) reverse osmosis plant (RO). The water reclamation plant…
Converting a Surface Water Supply From Agricultural to Municipal Use
Nine communities in California’s Central Valley are planning a regional drinking water supply system which will convert some agricultural surface water to municipal use. The drinking water supply program is…
The Effects of Wastewater Characteristics on Metals Partitioning in Activated Sludge Mixed Liquor
Batch experiments were performed using mixed liquors from an activated sludge process receiving mainly residential wastewater and another activated sludge process receiving municipal wastewater which contained a significant portion of…