New recycled water pipeline to irrigate three Glendale schools

Glendale city officials expect to eventually save nearly 18 million gallons of potable water each year after crews install new recycled water pipelines to irrigate three Glendale schools.

The infrastructure project will be funded, in part, by a regional grant. The City Council on Tuesday approved spending $1.6 million from Proposition 84 grant funds to pay for more than half of the project cost.

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The bill comes to about $2.9 million, and city officials agreed to pitch in the remaining $1.3 million.

Before applying for the grant last October, Glendale Water & Power looked to areas in Glendale where they could install recycled water pipelines to quantify big water savings by relying less on imported potable water.

Ultimately, Hoover High, Toll Middle and Mark Keppel Elementary schools emerged as the obvious locations where crews could provide recycled water irrigation.

The campuses, with expansive athletic fields, each have Glenwood Road addresses in the western part of the city — blocks from Glenoaks Boulevard, where there is already an existing recycled water main from which the new pipeline can extend.

Crews will begin to install 4,625 feet of pipeline in July and could complete the project by November 2017.

Officials expect to offset about 17,922,000 gallons of potable water each year, said Stephen Zurn, general manager for Glendale Water & Power.

“It’s a definite win-win situation,” he said in an email Thursday. “We will continue to seek out these grant opportunities at both the state and federal level as they become available.”

The three campuses will join five Glendale Unified schools that already tap into recycled water, in addition to Glendale Community College.

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Kelly Corrigan, [email protected]

Twitter: @kellymcorrigan

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