All about recycled water
The bottom line > recycled water is 10% cheaper than potable water for commercial uses like irrigation and manufacturing.

The other bottom line > soccer, softball and football playing kids will tell you -- more grass means less raspberries on their bottom line.  Padre Dam helps the bottom line at Grossmont and Santee school districts with safe recycled water, a 10% savings on irrigation, and happier student-athletes.

Padre Dam's bottom line > our Water Recycling Facility produced a net income of $141,579 in FY 2001-2002 on recycled water sales of $1.8 million -- and no funding from water or sewer rates.

Recycled water is an integral part of San Diego's future water supply, along with conservation, desalination and groundwater resource development.  It is not intended for drinking or cooking, but for irrigation, industrial use and the replenishment of underground aquifers, reservoirs or lakes.  It is highly treated, and hundreds of recycling systems serve thousands of people in water-short areas throughout the United States.

How safe is it? California's standards for recycled water are the benchmarks in the United States and the world, and they allow for full body contact, such as swimming or waterskiing, where accidental ingestion is assumed.  
All about our water
All about our (your) wastewater

Infrastructure
Water Recycling Facility
1 reservoir
32 miles of pipeline

Capacity
2.3 million gallons/day