California Construction News staff writer
The City of Oceanside was recently awarded $15 million for potable reuse water projects to further develop local, reliable and resilient water sources.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded Oceanside three grants:
- $5.2 million will be used to add an extraction well, brine minimization processes and new reverse-osmosis facilities at the Mission Basin Groundwater Purification Facility (MBGPF). The MBGPF is a desalting treatment facility put into operation in 1992 and expanded in 2002. Reverse osmosis is the centerpiece of the facility. It uses pressure-driven semi-permeable membrane technology use to treat local brackish water extracted from groundwater wells in the Mission Basin.
- $3.1 million is for the expansion of the city’s expanding recycled water system, to construct a 2.2 million gallon tank, pump station and pipelines.
- $7.1 million allows for recovery of costs on the completed Pure Water Oceanside project.
MBGPF, the Recycled Water System expansion, and Pure Water Oceanside all provide a diverse, safe, and drought-proof local water sources for the Oceanside community, as well as the region.
The grants were provided through the WaterSMART Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which provides water and energy efficiency grants to water agencies and communities to modernize water delivery infrastructure.
