Forward Thinking: Citizen Group Drives Flagstaff’s Wastewater Initiatives

Wastewater could be our most valuable resource. Public, private groups push new technologies for its reuse, energy potential and value in LEED construction.
Forward Thinking: Citizen Group Drives Flagstaff’s Wastewater Initiatives
The City of Flagstaff has been delivering reclaimed water since the early 1970s. Today it supplies three golf courses, 15 parks, 10 schools and 12 single-family homes with 2.6 mgd of reclaimed water during the summer months.

Wastewater technology may one day solve the world’s thirst for freshwater and provide an environmentally safe means for biosolids disposal.

Brad Hill, utilities director for the City of Flagstaff, Arizona, says like most municipalities in the parched Southwest, managing the...

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