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Introduction to the Groundwater Recharge Facility
The City operates an aquifer storage and recovery facility; the common name is a “Recharge Facility”
- Recharges both surface
water and treated effluent supplies
- Requires state permitting
- Meets both the State and
City water management efforts for maintaining long-term groundwater supplies.
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Background – Recharge Supplies
- Historically, the community’s wastewater supplies were treated/reclaimed,
and then used to irrigate Antelope Hills Golf Course. This golf course dates back to the 1950s.
- When more reclaimed supplies were available than were needed at the
golf course, then those volumes prior to 1987 were discharged to Granite Creek (until approximately 1988).
- In 1988, the City was issued its first “Recharge Project Permit” from the
State of Arizona for underground storage of treated effluent (a recharge facility). The facility was approved for 6,721 acre-feet per year.
- In 1998, the City was issued two water storage permits.
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