Council member Ed Manny suggested that the city offer residents the chance to go to the city's wastewater treatment plant on Lafayette Boulevard and pick up some reclaimed water. If you want to put a couple barrels in the back of your pickup truck and go down to the wastewater treatment plant to pick up some reclaimed water, I think we should be prepared to do that. Mulvihill said residents could pick up reclaimed water from the plant during business hours. City crews have been working extra hours on the weekends to try to keep up and have been hooking up an average of 20 to 25 reclaimed water customers a month. Mulvihill said more residents have been requesting the service because of the extended drought.
Reclaimed water is an attractive choice because it costs much less than potable water.
Residents of newer subdivisions in the city are more likely to get the service because their neighborhoods were built with reclaimed water transmission lines already underground. Some older sections of the city may have to wait years before they can get the service because the city would have to pay for the transmission lines. All rights reserved.