Washington D.C. – Today the United States House of Representatives passed Rep. Jason Chaffetz’ Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act of 2009 (HR 2265).The House of Representative’s Committee on Natural Resources previously approved the bill and reported it favorably to the full House of Representatives for consideration.
Magna Water District (District) constructed an electrodialysis reversal (EDR) drinking water treatment plant to remove harmful arsenic and perchlorate from the Barton Well Field. To address the water shortage issues facing the citizens of northwest Salt Lake County, the District developed a state-of-the-art, first of its type in the world water reuse and recharge facility, known as BIOBROx, which treats the waste stream from the EDR plant to produce high quality effluent that can be used for outdoor irrigation. In doing so, the Magna Water District will be saving over 580 million gallons/year of drinkable water that was formerly being used for irrigation purposes.
Rep. Chaffetz introduced the Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act to address groundwater pollution that was created by the Department of Defense and defense contractors that now necessitates a federal clean up.
The Magna Water District Water Reuse and Groundwater Recharge Act is the House of Representatives companion bill to Senate bill S. 745. Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced this bill on March 31, 2009 and was referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
