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The city of Livermore built
its first Publicly Owned Treated Works in 1942. The first
plant was located near Rincon and Pine Streets. At that time,
the plant was on the west end of town in the unincorporated
county. As residential areas moved closer to the facility,
plans were initiated to relocate the plant to its
current location at 101 West Jack London Boulevard. The
original plant at this location was construction in 1958-59,
with a design capacity of 2.5 million gallons per day (MGD).
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recent completed in 1993. Today, the plant
has a design capacity of 8.5 MGD. The Livermore Water
Reclamation Plant currently processes over 6 million gallons
of wastewater each day from throughout the Livermore area.
The plant includes primary, secondary and tertiary treatment
processes, and UV disinfection. Treatment plant solids
undergo thickening, stabilization, and dewatering
prior to transport offsite for use as landfill cover.
The Livermore Water Reclamation Plant also has state-of-the-art
microfiltration and reverse-osmosis (RO) facilities available
on site that are capable of filtering out impurities as
small as bacteria, viruses, and some dissolved chemicals. |
