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From: <br />Bryan Bear <br />To: <br />Becky Petryk; Mike Miron; Phil Klein <br />Cc: <br />Michele Lindau <br />Subject: <br />FW: Tonight"s water reuse agenda item <br />Date: <br />Monday, March 05, 2018 4:27:42 PM <br />From: Debra C. Barnes[mailto:debracbarnes@comcast.net] <br />Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:39 PM <br />To: 'THOMAS WEIDT' <tweidt@msn.com>; Chuck Haas <charles.haas27@gmai1.com> <br />Cc: Bryan Bear <BBear@ci.hugo.mn.us> <br />Subject: Tonight's water reuse agenda item <br />Dear Mr. Mayor and Councilman Haas, <br />I would like to express my support for Councilman Klein's suggestion that the <br />City of Hugo take a position on the policy amendments under consideration by <br />Met Council relating to wastewater reuse. I think this is one more way our city <br />can demonstrate support for sustainable practices involving water use. <br />Wastewater treatment technology has been around since at least the mid-1980s; <br />the consultant I worked for in Denver, CH2M Hill, actually designed a small <br />demonstration treatment plant for the Denver Water Board all those years ago. <br />The purpose behind the project was to establish the relative safety of reclaimed <br />wastewater as a drinking water supply. The full-scale, 1.0 mgd Potable Reuse <br />Demonstration Plant was successfully constructed. <br />The biggest challenge to implementing the technology at the time on a large <br />scale was high cost, public perception, and regulatory issues. Denver now <br />embraces reuse of wastewater as a nonpotable water source for crop irrigation, <br />industrial use, in parks, and for other purposes. The city has two parallel water <br />distribution systems: potable water, and the "purple pipes" that carry treated <br />wastewater for use in nonpotable water systems. According to an article I read <br />today in Progressive Engineer, "recycling proves cost effective when compared <br />to finding new water and developing the resources." That statement has real <br />implications for the Twin Cities area. <br />hhU://www.12rogressiveen-ineer.com/features/denverWater.Iltm <br />I realize that the Hugo City Council may not wish to make a public statement <br />about reusing wastewater as drinking water, per se (although personally, I think <br />the public may have developed an increased appreciation for the wonders of <br />