California water district to construct state-of-the-art recycling facility

The East Valley Water District in Highland, Calif., recently secured $126 million in funding from the California State Water Resources Control Board to construct the Sterling Natural Resource Center (SNRC), a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility that will produce recycled water and offer additional community benefits.

Through $119 million in low-interest loans and $6.7 million in grants for project design and construction, the SNRC will benefit more than 700,000 residents in the San Bernardino Valley. An estimated 800 temporary jobs will be created during construction, and indirectly contribute to 1,400 new positions around the community once the facility opens. SNRC will be supporting the statewide goal of creating more than one million acre-feet of recycled water by 2020, by recycling an estimated 10 million gallons daily.