The goal of the City of Santa Rosa Utilities Department is to maximize resources (water, biosolids, digester gas and nutrients) while striving to eliminate service interruptions and customer complaints from among its 53,000-plus residential and commercial accounts.
Under normal flow control conditions, the department recycles 100 percent of its treated wastewater, either to the innovative Geyser geothermal project north of the city (see sidebar) or to storage ponds that irrigate over 6,500 acres at local dairies, vineyards, lawns, golf courses and parks. The department is working diligently to replace the remaining old clay pipe in its wastewater collection system. And from
