Westminster receives $1M to build state's first water-reuse facilityWestminster is building the first water-reuse facility in Maryland thanks in...
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Westminster is building the first water-reuse facility in Maryland thanks in part to federal funding.
WBAL-TV 11 News Investigates reported in 2024 about the city's plans to turn sewage water into drinking water.
On Tuesday, the city received more than $1 million in federal funding to go toward the system called "Purewater Westminster." The system is designed to divert filtered and treated wastewater into a purification plant.
In 2001 and 2002, extreme drought depleted Carroll County's reservoir, so water had to be trucked in from Baltimore for residents' use. City officials said the new purification system will eliminate such a need.
"With this coming online, one of the things that we are most hopeful (for) is that this project will ensure our water for the future," Westminster Mayor Mona Becker said. "We can put those drought conditions, when they occur, we can put them to the side. We will not have to worry so much about being in any sort of dire situation where we don't have the water to meet the needs of the city."
Construction on the purification facility will begin in 2027.
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- Solar Water Purification Systems
- Maryland, United States
- water funds
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- Sustainable water purification