Think of the Clayton County (Ga.) WaterAuthority as a huge irrigation system. Now think of its William B. Casey Water Reclamation Facility as the watering can.
One hundred percent of Casey plant effluent is reused, most of it to replenish the Pates Creek watershed through an indirect potable reuse system consisting of more than 4,000 acres of constructed wetlands. The rest is put to work at the plant itself, irrigating the odor control biofilters, washing down belt filter presses, and mixing polymers.
“We’re big proponents of reuse, and we have been for years,” says Jim Poff, water reclamation department manager. “We opened
