Dive summary:
- Harding Park golf course in San Francisco has started one of the only large scale waste water projects in San Francisco by using treated waste water to keep their golf courses green.
- The new system incorporates a 700,000-gallon underground storage tank, a new pump station and 4,800 feet of pipeline.
- The switch is estimated to save an average of 230,000 gallons of water every day, with the addition of anticipated projects San Francisco hopes to reach its goal of using 4 million gallons of recycled water a day.
From the article:
For the first time in decades, using pristine drinking water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is no longer the only way to keep the grass green in San Francisco.
Last week, recycled water from a wastewater treatment plant in Daly City began irrigating TPC Harding Park golf course, located on Lake Merced. The new system includes a 700,000-gallon underground recycled water storage tank, a new pump station and about 4,800 feet of pipeline along Lake Merced Boulevard. ...