CityStories / City Profiles / Small Cities / Antioch, California
Population: 90,532
- Water recycling
- City-wide public recyling
- The Official City of Antioch Website
Photo Credit: Hugh Grew/Flickr
Antioch, California
Because Antioch's tagline is the "Gateway to the Delta" of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers at the San Francisco Bay, water management is a top priority for the city.
The city’s Urban Water Management Plan, created in 2005, predicts water supply and demand until 2030 and ways to handle it. A partnership with the Delta Diablo Sanitation District may extend water recycling to the city of Antioch, and a pipeline that would bring recycled water to Antioch customers by 2011 has been proposed.
The City of Antioch works to make public recycling available as many places as possible. With funding from the Department of Conservation, the city has installed recycling containers at parks, city buildings, Sutter Delta hospital, schools, the Riverside business district, sports fields, and during nearly every public special event. The Lone Tree Golf Course is one of the few courses in California with recycling receptacles at each hole—this program alone diverts about 1 ton of waste a month.
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Porous Paving
The EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System site provides information about applicability, siting and design criteria.
Georgia's Department of Community Affairs has a page on best practices for porous paving.
Portland, Oregon's Bureau of Environmental Service pervious paving projects page.
City of Chicago's permeable paving site with many local examples.
San Francisco Parks Trust permeable landscape page.
Environmental Health Perspectives provides a good overview in "Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impermeable Surfaces."
NRDC's report Stormwater Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution considers a variety of responses implemented across the country.
Water Conservation
US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation: with a mission to "manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public" the bureau provides information about water levels in reservoirs throughout the West, updates on dams, powerplants and related projects and a library of water reclamation materials.
Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART program: Information on WaterSMART grants for water and energy conservation projects, basin studies with integrated management plans and water supply reviews and details on the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in the Southwest.
In Hot Water: Water Management Strategies to Weather the Effects of Global Warming (NRDC report)
Water Efficiency Saves Energy (NRDC report)
Las Vegas Water District conservation pages
Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNVA) conservation and rebates
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