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some of the region's most severe water shortages. Local water suppliers have ordered customers
to cut use 25 percent and limit watering lawns to twice a week. "We haven't been watering our
lawn, and it would be nice have it a little green," Gale Van de Roovaart said as she filled her water
drums from a station hose on a recent day.
She was planning to make three trips that day to water her grass and her tomato, squash and bean
plants in Pleasanton, where the city has steep financial penalties for those failing to cut back.
"It's not just about avoiding the city's penalties," she said. "I want to conserve water in a drought.
... Besides, the price is right: It's free."
People can haul away up to 300 gallons per trip
for free with no limit on trips. Those who want
bigger loads must register as a commercial
water hauler and pay $10 per trip.
On one weekday last week, each of the three
recycled water outlets at the station was in use.
"This just blows me away about how popular
this has been," said Dan Gallagher, operations
manager at the district, a drinking water and
sewage agency.
"I thought maybe it would be my wife and
three or four other peopl e and that would be it,"
he said. "No one is happy about the drought
shortages, but people are happy to have an
option for a little help."
The district imposes minimal requirements. They must fill out an agreement and get brief
instructions. Gallagher said his agency worked with state health and wastewater regulators to
design the rules because there were none on the books.
Many other water agencies recycle sewer water -- Sa n Jose, for instance, distributes it for industrial
cooling and landscape irrigation. But no other agency in the state has a recycled water station like
this for residential customers, said Blair Allen, an engineer with the Bay Area Water Resources
Control Board.
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to cut use 25 percent and limit watering lawns to twice a week. "We haven't been watering our
lawn, and it would be nice have it a little green," Gale Van de Roovaart said as she filled her water
drums from a station hose on a recent day.
She was planning to make three trips that day to water her grass and her tomato, squash and bean
plants in Pleasanton, where the city has steep financial penalties for those failing to cut back.
"It's not just about avoiding the city's penalties," she said. "I want to conserve water in a drought.
... Besides, the price is right: It's free."
People can haul away up to 300 gallons per trip
for free with no limit on trips. Those who want
bigger loads must register as a commercial
water hauler and pay $10 per trip.
On one weekday last week, each of the three
recycled water outlets at the station was in use.
"This just blows me away about how popular
this has been," said Dan Gallagher, operations
manager at the district, a drinking water and
sewage agency.
"I thought maybe it would be my wife and
three or four other peopl e and that would be it,"
he said. "No one is happy about the drought
shortages, but people are happy to have an
option for a little help."
The district imposes minimal requirements. They must fill out an agreement and get brief
instructions. Gallagher said his agency worked with state health and wastewater regulators to
design the rules because there were none on the books.
Many other water agencies recycle sewer water -- Sa n Jose, for instance, distributes it for industrial
cooling and landscape irrigation. But no other agency in the state has a recycled water station like
this for residential customers, said Blair Allen, an engineer with the Bay Area Water Resources
Control Board.
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