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City of Morgan Hill
2015 Urban Water Management Plan
6.5.2.2 Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area
No wastewater is treated or disposed of by the City within the UWMP service area, as indicated in
Table 6-3
.
Table 6-3 Wastewater Treatment and Discharge Within Service Area in 2015
No wastewater is treated or disposed of within the UWMP service area.
The City is not required to complete the table below.
Wastewater
Treatment
Plant Name
Discharge
Location
Name and
Description
Method
of
Disposal
Does This
Plant Treat
Wastewater
Generated
Outside the
Service
Area?
Treatment
Level
2015 Volume
Wastewater
Treated
Discharged
Treated
Wastewater
Recycled
Within
Service
Area
Recycled
Outside
of
Service
Area
(AF)
(AF)
(AF)
(AF)
SCRWA currently operates and maintains the regional wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) south
of the City under an agreement with Operations Management International, Inc. and treats an
average dry weather flow of approximately 6.5 million gallons per day (mgd). SCRWA also
updated their facilities to increase the recycled water production capacity from 3 mgd to 9 mgd.
As demand for recycled water continues to increase, SCRWA intends to increase capacity to
accommodate these flows. Currently, SCRWA and SCVWD plan to recycle all wastewater flows
coming into the plant.
6.5.3
Recycled Water System
Law
The South County Recycled Water System was initially constructed in 1977 as an agreement
between SCVWD, the City of Gilroy, and Gavilan Water Conservation District. The full potential of
this system was not realized until 1999, when a new agreement was signed to include the city of
Morgan Hill and SCRWA. In this agreement, the system was updated, and consistent recycled
water deliveries began in the City of Gilroy. At this time the recycled water system only serves
users in the City of Gilroy service area and no infrastructure exists to convey recycled water to
Morgan Hill. The Draft 2015 South County Recycled Water Master Plan Update explored several
project alternatives for conveying recycled water to the City but not enough benefit was presented,
due to small recycled water demands and the high cost of infrastructure that would be required,
for them to be considered as viable alternatives.
10633 (c) (Describe) the recycled water currently being used in the supplier’s service area,
including, but not limited to, the type, place, and quantity of use.