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The Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) on Tuesday awarded Oakland-based construction firm McGuire and Hester a $4.28 million contract to install 16,500 feet of pipelines that will distribute recycled water to 40 sites west of Interstate 680 in Dublin for landscape irrigation.
According to DSRSD officials, when completed later this year, the project will save close to 49 million gallons of potable water annually — enough to supply 865 households.
DSRSD also provides potable and recycled water service to the Dougherty Valley area of San Ramon and wastewater collection and treatment to south San Ramon,
Installing the pipes, which vary in diameter from four to six and eight inches, requires digging trenches in or boring under the following roadways:
• Amador Valley Boulevard from San Ramon Road to Penn Drive
• San Ramon Road from Dublin Boulevard to Vomac Road (west side in the bike lane)
• Dublin Boulevard from Silvergate Drive to San Ramon Road;
• all of Shannon Avenue
• Peppertree Road from Shannon Avenue to Juarez Lane to Castilian Road to Iglesia Drive (to reach Dolan Park).
Project construction will begin mid-June and continue through December. Work near schools is planned to be completed during the summer to minimize traffic congestion. Updates of construction progress will be posted on the DSRSD website.
Earlier this year, the water district installed pipelines to connect the Santa Rita Jail and other Alameda County properties in the area to the recycled water distribution system. DSRSD accelerated the timetable for both projects in 2014 in response to the region’s severe drought, officials said.
A $2 million grant from the California Department of Water Resources Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP), funded through Proposition 84, is partially funding both projects.
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While they are at it, why can’t they run the pipe to our neighborhoods, so we can irrigate, flush our toilets and do our laundry with reclaimed water?
Every new development’s developer should be required to install the infrastructure to their developments and if the development is 100 houses, they should be required to install reclaimed water to the first 100 (or better yet, 200) houses nearest the sewage treatment plant. The next development would then continue the reclaimed infrastructure further out from the plant and so on. Before you know it, everyone would have reclaimed water to the point where we would have no more reclaimed water being deposited into the bay and we would probably have to supplement the reclaimed water with potable water. I guess I am just a lone dreamer.
Dave,
Six years ago, before the drought crisis, I added storage tanks for 2500 gallons of rainwater. In 2011 I added 4500 more gal. I use that to water my front yard and trees, and for laundry. http://danvillesanramon.com/blogs/p/2014/07/16/saving-water
I don’t have them hooked up to toilets yet, but I can capture sink water from washing my hands and dump it into the toilet. You could do the same things. It isn’t difficult and it isn’t even that expensive if you do your own work.
My tanks are above ground and take up a lot of room, but underground tanks can hold more rain and runoff water. Look up water recycling on Google. There’s a lot of information out there. http://www.care2.com/greenliving/8-ways-to-recycle-water-around-your-house.html
Roz
As I was turning right from Dublin Blvd onto Tassajara, I noticed the sprinklers on along the should next to the right turn lane between the turn lane and the sidewalk. This is corner where the PAMF building is. Not sure if this was being watered with recycled water. Nonetheless, this was hard to look at during this drought!