Wastewater reclamation and recharge: A water management strategy for Albuquerque
- Camp Dresser and McKee Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- City of Albuquerque, NM (United States). Public Works Dept.
Approximately 61,000 acre-feet of the pumped water is annually discharged to the Rio Grande as treated wastewater. Albuquerque`s Southside Water Reclamation Plant (SWRP) is the primary wastewater treatment facility for most of the Albuquerque area. Its current design capacity is 76 million gallons per day (mgd), which is expected to be adequate until about 2004. A master plan currently is being prepared (discussed here in Wastewater Master Planning and the Zero Discharge Concept section) to provide guidelines for future expansions of the plant and wastewater infrastructure. Construction documents presently are being prepared to add ammonia and nitrogen removal capability to the plant, as required by its new discharge permit. The paper discusses water management strategies, indirect potable reuse for Albuquerque, water quality considerations for indirect potable reuse, treatment for potable reuse, geohydrological aspects of a recharge program, layout and estimated costs for a conceptual reclamation and recharge system, and work to be accomplished under phase 2 of the reclamation and recharge program.
- OSTI ID:
- 415636
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9411293-; TRN: IM9704%%267
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 39. annual Mexico water conference: water future of Albuquerque and middle Rio Grande Basin, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 3-4 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of The water future of Albuquerque and Middle Rio Grande Basin: Proceedings of the 39. annual New Mexico water conference. WRRI report number 290; PB: 454 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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