The Santa Cruz treatment plant is rated for producing 24 million gallons per day. Summertime demand can be around 8 million gallons per day, but it decreases in the winter.

Santa Cruz’s wastewater facility has powered itself from methane produced by bacteria during waste digestion for several decades. The digesters — 30-foot tall circular tanks, stretching ...

Regarding water treatment, the report states that, in 2023, the Beltz Water Treatment Plant produced about 6% of the water in the Santa Cruz Water Department’s service area of about 20 square ...

Tucson Water hopes to have a pipeline built to take water treated for PFAS to the Santa Cruz River to be discharged. But some environmentalists and neighborhood advocates are wary ...

The Santa Cruz River used to be the source of life across southern Arizona. For thousands of years, it fed farms, supported wildlife, and gave water to Native communities.

Tucson Water plans to start discharging water containing low levels of PFAS compounds from its south-side water treatment plant into the Santa Cruz River in early October — if it gets a state ...

The improved quality is a more recent development in this stretch, since the U.S. government funded improvements to a treatment plant handling water from both Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona ...

TUMACÁCORI, Ariz. — The Santa Cruz River is not like most American rivers. If some of its admirers get their wish, it might also become a wildlife refuge unlike any other. Much of its 184-mile ...

Bids to build Santa Rosa sewage treatment plant "dramatically outside our ... which will initially be able to handle 250,000 gallons of waste water a day and eventually 500,000 gallons a ...

Many wastewater treatment plants, including the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility and Santa Cruz’s sewage treatment plant, are already doing their part by trying to ensure that their ...

Santa Cruz’s wastewater facility has powered itself from methane produced by bacteria during waste digestion for several decades. The digesters — 30-foot tall circular tanks, stretching ...