WSP01500

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/18/1951
• Title: News Articles - Jan 1951 - August 1952
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

i City Has Idea To Trade Used
. Wa,ter For New CF~lN~Ufelr

Public offICIalS at Pueblo. hope -
they have come up Wi,th the 501u-1
,tiOD to the county's need of addiw
. tional water for the j~medlate fu-
:ture. i
The l;lolution hinges on the re-Use
; at:. water after it has been treated
!-,at-.the citY'l{"sewage disposal plant.
. The proposal'is still in the early
. planning stage, and is being pat-
terned along the- lines of programs
: in operation in at least nine coin-
: mu-nitiea in the nation where water
treated at sewage disposal plants
is being repul;>ed for industrial pur-,
poses.
In Pueblo, the only proposal so
far advanced would depend on an
agreement to be worked out in the
future with the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co,rp. .
The 'plan would call for one Or
both of the city's water boards
tradi.ng about :12,000,000 gallons of
treated 'water a day to the CF&I
in exchange tor 9,000,006 gallons a
day from. the steel firm's water
rights.
~us, -the' city would increase its
water supply by 9,000,000 g81lons a
day, wp.iIe . the. -CF&I would get an
additional' 3/()(J(),000 gallons a day.
~o .formal negotiations On the
proposal have-been started between
. the.CF&I and the city or its water
j boards, but officials who are
I pondering the area's -g1'owhj.g short-
I age of water are hopefUl that the
. plan can be worked out.
The city would take its additional
water supply from a OF&I"diversion
point above the city. The CF&I's
additional SUpply would be pumpe4
fron;t the disposal plant to tb;~
Minnequa works.
Officials_ here began studying the
proposal on the basis of the eXper-
ience of - the known commuriities
where similar plans are in oper-
ation.
One of them is at Baltimore, Md.,
where treated water is being used
for cooling, quenching and possiblY
I pther uses, at the Bethlehem .steel

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planf.'"This.'water-18 sold to Bethle-I
hem.
Others include:
Big Spring, Tex.-An all refinery
'purchases treated water for. \tse in
icooting and as a boiler feed.
, E'nid, Okla.--Oil refInery using
,treated water'_ for cooling and as
boiler make-up.
Duncan, Okla,--IRefinery use sim-
ilar to that at Enid.
Goldfield, Nev.-Used in meta.l-
, lurgical processes at a local mill

_! which emplOYS the cyanide process.
. Herington, Kan.-A division point
on the Rock Island railroad. The
city delivers ef(luent from its:
sludge plaIlt to the softening plant
of the railroad.
Grand Canon, Ariz.-An early
example of the reclamation of sani-
tary sewage for_ industrial Use..
-A. t t e r treatment by activated J
sludge process, water is filtered and ~
sterilized before distribuUon for'
Use in stationary boilers, loco:r;no-
~ tives and lawn irrigation. ,>
Providence, R. I.-Use of treated.
water at a municipal incinerator.
If .such a plan could be 'Yorked
: out in PUeblo, it is believed that the '
additional water supply would
~ satisfy the city's immediate needs
i until such time as the Ftying Pan-
Arkansas Water Diversion prograDt
: can be _effe,cted: