A city official is advocating for new state guidelines that would allow treated wastewater to be injected into aquifers, potentially solving multiple water management challenges.
“We already have access to reclaim water. We’ve had reclaimed water for a number of years,” said Jason Sciandra, Assistant Public Utilities Director for the city. “What I talked about in the meeting today was about direct potable and indirect potable reuse, that’s basically taking the waste water, putting it through additional levels of treatment, and then being able to use that for drinking water purposes.”
Watch Fort Myers Community Correspondent Miyoshi Price’ explain the proposal:
Fort Myers seeks new water reuse guidelines for aquifer recharge
The proposal focuses specifically on indirect potable reuse guidelines that would enable water diverted from the Caloosahatchee River to be treated and used to recharge aquifers…