Construction has officially started on the City’s Recycled Water Conveyance Pipeline System, a major sustainability initiative aimed at providing reclaimed water for irrigating City parks, landscaping, and turf areas for Soledad Unified School District. Once finished, the system will replace around 54 million gallons of potable well water each year with recycled water produced at the City’s Water Reclamation Facility. This innovative project includes: Over five miles of new conveyance pipeline, a state-of-the-art 1.5 million-gallon-per-day pump station, upgraded irrigation systems, a sophisticated hydraulic analysis using modeling software to simulate the conveyance system under a wide range of conditions, more than 180 engineering drawings, nearly 1,000 pages of specifications, and countless hours of collaboration between our engineering team and the City. Together, these efforts will allow the City and SUSD to keep irrigating sports fields even during future droughts—ensuring green, safe, and usable spaces for the community all year round. While recycled water use is common in other parts of California, Soledad will be the first agency in our region to water parks and school fields with renewable, recycled water, marking a significant step forward in local water conservation and sustainability.