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Southern California Groundwater Reclamation and Enhanced Urban Water Supply

Project  —  www.wrd.org/content/wrd-robert-w-goldsworthy-desalter

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Area: 5888268 km2
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Brazil; Peru; Suriname; France; Colombia; Guyana; Bolivia; Venezuela; Ecuador
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Santa Cruz; Manaus; La Paz
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Countries: United States of America
Basins: North Pacific (446) (San Joaquin & Sacramento)
Project SDGs:
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Water Quality (SDG 6.3)
Water Use Efficiency (SDG 6.4)
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Drought Management
Groundwater
Replenishment
Progress to Date: 730 The project measures progress and outcomes volumetrically: a) millions of gallons of clean, locally-sourced water delivered; b) millions of gallons of reduced need for imported water; c) millions of gallons of remediated groundwater and new storage
Services Needed: Financial support
Desired Partner: Business
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Mar. 01, 2022  »  Ongoing
Project Website: www.wrd.org/content/wrd-robert-w-goldsworthy-desalter
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Insufficient municipal water supply, PHYSICAL: Groundwater management
Additional Benefits: Other
Beneficiaries: Water utilities, Other utilities, Local communities / domestic users
Planning & Implementation Time: 1 - 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $50,000 - $100,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: public
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources
Project Source: User
Profile Completion: 90%

Project Overview

BEF works to identify a unique category of Water Projects that can meet critical corporate objectives for volumetric water stewardship in Southern California. Companies seek collective impact, cost-effective volumetric benefits, turn-key outcomes with near-term implementation, long-term benefits, and catalytic water stewardship impact with material connection to SOCAL operations. Because much of the region’s water is imported, companies struggle to identify high volume, high…

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BEF works to identify a unique category of Water Projects that can meet critical corporate objectives for volumetric water stewardship in Southern California. Companies seek collective impact, cost-effective volumetric benefits, turn-key outcomes with near-term implementation, long-term benefits, and catalytic water stewardship impact with material connection to SOCAL operations. Because much of the region’s water is imported, companies struggle to identify high volume, high impact, hyper-local projects. This project is uniquely positioned to meet corporate goals and demonstrate collective water stewardship impact for a diverse suite of companies.

The project partners with the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (CA’s largest groundwater agency) to acquire and reclaim brackish groundwater to increase water supply for the Los Angeles metro area. The project:

  • Creates infrastructure to deliver brackish groundwater to an underutilized desalting facility that currently has 5MGD capacity but at present can only operate at 3MGD
  • With access to the brackish water and new delivery infrastructure, the project can treat an additional 2MGD to increase SOCAL water supply.
  • Treated water will be used by a local city and will improve water supply resilience for the region by increasing local supply and reducing the need to rely on imported water
  • The project also assists in basin and groundwater remediation by extracting brackish water and creating additional freshwater storage space to further increase SOCAL’s ability to rely on local water sources while mitigating saltwater intrusion.
  • We project a cost-effective project with 730M gallons/year volume benefit

Unintended Consequences

There are no expected harmful consequences

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Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Insufficient municipal water supply, PHYSICAL: Groundwater management
Project Benefits: Other
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Water utilities, Other utilities, Local communities / domestic users
Months & Implementing: 1 - 3 years
Financial Resources: Between $50,000 - $100,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Public funding
Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources

Unintended Consequences

There are no expected harmful consequences

Project Narrative

If there is interest in this project from WRC members, the BEF team is able to provide additional detail to facilitate an in depth review. There are additional opportunities to partner with public agencies in Southern California to a) achieve volumetric benefits tied to equity and access for underserved communities and b) recycle water to increase groundwater storage and reduce saltwater intrusion in the region.

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Todd Reeve
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