Reclaimed Wastewater Plays a Key Role in Conservation

As the wastewater collection and treatment agency as well as the water distribution agency for its service area, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority has found a way to conserve water by reclaiming wastewater and using it in situations where regular water might have been used instead. Treated effluent from the authority’s wastewater treatment plant is sent back to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it’s used for irrigation and for chilled water in climate control systems. The reclaimed water program started in 2009. It’s technically operated by the wastewater treatment portion