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Sewage diversion project aims to address peak summer recycled water irrigation demands
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Dublin San Ramon Services District s new temporary supplemental recycled water supply project not only aims to boost their irrigation water, but it also doesn t let anything go to waste especially human waste.
DSRSD Operations staff open a sewage manhole cover along the Iron Horse Trail in San Ramon for the new Central San diversion project. (Courtesy image)
Putting a new spin on the old adage one man s trash is another man s treasure, DSRSD recently launched a program to divert one to two million pounds of sewage a day for three years from its sister agency Central Contra Costa Sanitary District to the Jeffrey G. Hansen Water Recycling Plant in Pleasanton, according to a statement from DSRSD.
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A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
On a Saturday in late October, Carolyn Phinney is hip-deep in a half-acre of vegetables, at the nucleus of what will one day be 15 acres of productive farmland.
“You can’t even see the pathways,” she says, surrounded by the literal fruits of her labors. The patch is a wealth of herbs, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, kale, winter squash, and zucchini. So much zucchini fruits the size of bowling pins hidden under leaves as big as umbrellas. “Zucchini plants are supposed to be 30 inches across. Ours are 8 feet,” she says. “Everything looks like it’s on steroids.”
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On a Saturday in late October, Carolyn Phinney stands hip-deep in a half acre of vegetables, at the nucleus of what will one day be 15 acres of productive farmland. You can t even see the pathways, she says, surrounded by the literal fruits of her labors. The patch is a wealth of herbs, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, kale, winter squash, and zucchini. So much zucchini fruits the size of bowling pins hidden under leaves as big as umbrellas. Zucchini plants are supposed to be 30 inches across. Ours are 8 feet, she says. Everything looks like it s on steroids.