Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center and Groundwater Replenishment with
Purified Recycled Water
SFPUC Annual Water Quality & Technology Workshop NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
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Presentation will cover:
Presentation will cover:
Santa Clara Valley Water District & Water Supply Picture
Monitoring, Lessons & Moving Forward
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
County’s Water Resources Manager
• Santa Clara Valley Water District: Providing Silicon Valley safe, clean water for a healthy life, environment and economy
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ANIMATED SLIDE – 3 clicks The district manages an integrated water resources system in order to provide safe, reliable drinking water – click, flood protection- click and stream stewardship for all of Santa Clara County.
Headquarters in San Jose, California
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ANIMATED – 1 click The SCVWD was formed in 1929, which makes it 86 years old. Our headquarters building is located in San Jose, the largest city in northern ca< THE THIRD LARGEST IN ca, AND THE 10th largest city IN THE NATION.
Santa Clara Valley Water District Serves:
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2 million people
15 cities
4,700 well owners
13 water retailers
San Francisco Bay Area
Diversified portfolio for a reliable supply
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Imported water Local surface &
groundwater
Conservation Recycled Water
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Talking points We recognize that an adequate and reliable supply of clean water is crucial to our sustained development. That is the reason, we have a diversified water supply portfolio. Today there are four primary sources of water for Santa Clara County… Imported water from the Sierra Nevada, Local surface and groundwater, Water Conservation, and Non-potable recycled water
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Water Shortages –Almaden Reservoir, San Jose
Need locally-controlled, drought-proof supply
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Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
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SJ/SC Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility
SBWR Transmission Pump Station
SILICON VALLEY ADVANCED WATER
PURIFICATION CENTER
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ANIMATED – 3 clicks So we build a facility in Santa Clara County Across from the SJ/SC RWF and SBWR The SVAWPC is enclosed in the red lines
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Santa Clara Valley Water District constructed & owns a new recycled water purification facility – completed in early 2014
• 8 million gallons per
day of purified water
• Built in partnership –
Santa Clara Valley
Water District & the
City of San Jose
• Serves Silicon Valley
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This new facility is a vital part of the SCVWD’s plan to continue to ensure a clean, reliable water supply for Santa Clara County We built a duality in this facility in that it can produce 8 mgd of ultra purified water or serve 10 mgd of tertiary recycled water Built as a regional facility with a thought towards future expansion
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
0.1 micron
Incoming TDS = 900 ppm 11
MICROFILTRATION
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ANIMATED – 1 click The $72 million project in San Jose was completed in early 2014. It had a soft opening in March, with service to customer.. Describe technology
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center 0.0001 micron
Outgoing TDS= 3-5 ppm 12
REVERSE OSMOSIS
Filtration: Pore Size Matters (nanometer)
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Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
Ultraviolet light disinfection 14
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ANIMATED – 1 click Describe Technology
Pilot Scale Testing – UV AOP for Potable Reuse
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Tested for…
– NDMA Destruction
– 1,4-dioxane Destruction
– Trace Pollutant Destruction
– AOP Oxidant Optimization
– Surrogate Analysis
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Independent Advisory Panel Assures Quality
Nationally recognized experts review the District’s approach to potable reuse testing efforts at the purification center – assess,
review, and guide District’s potable reuse efforts
April 30, 2013 May 29, 2014
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Talking points In April the Independent Advisory Panel evaluating the District’s potable reuse opportunities and potential held its first meeting. The panel is appointed by the National Water Research Institute, will provide assessment on various issues related to potable reuse such as public health and safety, advanced water treatment design issues, permitting and regulatory requirements, and public outreach and advocacy. It will assess, review, comment and guide the district’s potable reuse efforts. The IAP will be instrumental in providing a third party review of the District’s approach to potable reuse and will be important for gaining public support for future potable reuse projects. Successful IPR projects in Southern California have utilized IAP as a component of these planning efforts.
Phase I: evaluate on-going operational data at SVAWPC – MF: filtrate turbidity, cleaning intervals, integrity
Phase III: quarterly testing over 1 year – Confirm Phase II results over long-term
Overview: Three Phases of Testing
FOCUS
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SCVWD Operators
Large internal candidate pool
Career path mobility & cross-over training opportunities available
SVAWPC operators are T operators
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With three very large drinking water treatment plants, District had Drinking water T license - focus SCVWD has 32 drinking water T-license holders plus 3 with T-5 T licenses as district staff at the drinking WTPs. Over 50 years experience with T-license holders. SCVWD operators have growth opportunities at the District, the SCVWD pays fairly, and over (get data from HR) 90% of the operators stay for the long-haul – starting as entry-level, moving up and staying for 15-20 years. Opened the SVAWPC job postings to W & T, internal and external We started at the SVAWPC allowing for both T and WW operators to quality. We ended up with mostly T operators to begin with and quickly evolved to all T licensed operators and supervisor, while allowing for both. That’s our experience. Knowing that the State of California has more T operators than WW operators, we suspect the treand to continue. Going forward, the District may only advertise for T operators because of the ease of cross-training, career ladder etc. Currently all the operators at the SVAWPC are T operators, although initially there was one W operator for a short period of time. Career path mobility available at the district between the SVAWPC and the drinking WTPs – assistants, journey WTPOs, seniors, supervisors One Supervisor, one SWTO (in hire), WTO, Assistant WTO, career ladder – 7 days a week, all year 10 hour days.
Initial equipment vendor training
On-the-Job Training
Using ISO & QMES SOPs – ISO 9001 & 14001 certified
Consultant developed training videos
Current Training Program
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3 minutes – not animated - Read off list of Ops Training Sign-off sheet, SOPs, etc, It was successful to bring in the operators on the job before the plant became operation. Since that time, we have found our internal training program to be good and we have demonstrated that we can train T2 and T3 license holders to become proficient with the plants operations in about 4 months, less than a year. We have found a strong internal training program to be an essential part of our operator development program. We have a strong On-the-Job training program for our conventional WTPs and now we have developed an equally strong membrane plant OJT program.
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Public tours at the new facility – increases public confidence and acceptance for future potable reuse
Public tours at the new facility – increases public confidence and acceptance for future potable reuse
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Potable Reuse
Indirect Potable
Direct Potable
Percolation Ponds
Injection Wells
Before Conventional Drinking WTP
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Explain that we are looking at both IPR and DPR – not really looking at reservoir augmentation Nonpotable Reuse Potable Reuse Differences between Indirect and Direct Potable Reuse
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Drivers for potable reuse
• Non-potable recycled water
(purple pipe) expansion insufficient to meet future needs
• Additional water conservation efforts insufficient to meet future needs – need the “wet stuff”
• Potable reuse identified as most reliable and cost-effective option, per the District’s Water Supply & Infrastructure Master Plan
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ANIMATED – 2 clicks Here are some drivers for my agency in its consideration for potable reuse. The District’s board has a goal of about 40,000 acre-ffet by year 2025 (10% of our county’s swater needs), and purple piepe non-potable expansion will not be sufficient. The low-hanging fruit on purple pipe has been plucked, and to get We, like other agencies in the state are maximizing our water conservation efforts We need local supplies, in-county supplies, drought-prrof supplies, and potable reuse fits this bill.
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Potable reuse – Multiple locations available
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15 seconds- animated District’s efforts with CSJ on Strategic Planning identified a number of potable reuse projects: Expansion of SVAWPC – centralized location – maybe up to 20-32 mgd – about $260M Los Gatos Pond system – recharge – 20,000 acre-feet per year of recharge Ford Road Pond Recharge – 4,200 AFY recharge - $70M Mid Basin Opportunity for well injection – approx. 5000 AFY recharge- $140M Opportunity for Central Pipeline and DPR
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Potable reuse – Mid Basin Injection
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Talk about the : District’s efforts with CSJ on Strategic Planning identified a number of potable reuse projects: Expansion of SVAWPC – centralized location – maybe up to 20-32 mgd – about $260M Los Gatos Pond system – recharge – 20,000 acre-feet per year of recharge Ford Road Pond Recharge – 4,200 AFY recharge - $70M Mid Basin Opportunity for well injection – approx. 5000 AFY recharge- $140M Opportunity for Central Pipeline and DPR
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Future – Direct Potable Reuse Possibility ?
WTP WTP
WTP
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Talk about the : Opportunity for DPR Show the Centralized AWT Expansion Project Point out the District’s three treatment plants RWTP – 80 MGD (100MGD) – 1960s STWTP (100 MGD) – 1980s PWTP (40 MGD) – 1970s Central Pipeline and DPR
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Operational Studies Groundwater models
RO Concentrate Public-Private Partnerships
Grants & Outreach
Expedited Design & CEQA Construction Plans
& Specs Construction
2016-2017
2018-2020
2015-2016
Preliminary Schedule
POTABLE REUSE
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SVAWPC Open House October 2015
Tasting is trust
Labor Intense
NWRI – Independent Advisory Panel Meeting – May 29, 2014
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There is no “I” in TEAM !
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NWRI – Independent Advisory Panel Meeting – May 29, 2014