Paso Robles Bet Big on Sustainability and Won Significant Rewards

A California city goes all-in on recycling with tertiary-treated water for irrigation and a nutrient harvesting system that solved a struvite problem.

Paso Robles Bet Big on Sustainability and Won Significant Rewards

The Paso Robles (California) Wastewater Treatment Plant has a design capacity of 4.9 mgd and an average flow of 1.9 mgd.

Paso Robles, California, made a plan in 2013 to go to tertiary wastewater and then recycling, but the city didn’t intend to modify the treatment plant until 2025. California’s prolonged drought changed that plan.

In 2016, the city had nearly completed a plant upgrade,...

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