Water quality: recycled water.
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Overview
This bill updates California’s Water Recycling Law to clarify definitions, expand the use of recycled water, and address potential concerns about its quality. Specifically, it redefines ‘recycled water,’ allows for the use of recycled water to restore decorative bodies of water during storm events, permits limited spray/runoff from irrigated parks, and extends the use of recycled water to food handling facilities. It also clarifies rules for residential landscaping and toilet/urinal flushing in buildings, particularly condominiums.
Key provisions
- Redefines ‘recycled water’ to include disinfected tertiary treated water discharged from decorative bodies of water during storm events.
- Allows for incidental spray/runoff from recycled water irrigation in parks and open spaces.
- Permits the use of recycled water for toilet and urinal flushing in food handling facilities, commercial buildings, and cafeterias (with restrictions to prevent contamination).
- Clarifies that outdoor landscape irrigation of common areas does not constitute a dual-plumbed system.
- Extends the use of recycled water for residential landscaping irrigation.
- Requires condominium projects to include specific disclosures and backflow prevention measures.
- Addresses the application of Public Resources Code to recycled water projects.
- Specifies requirements for engineering reports and plumbing design for recycled water systems.
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