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Apache Junction board approves reclaimed-water sale, fiber lease with sewer district
Summary
The Apache Junction Water Utilities Community Facilities District approved an intergovernmental agreement to buy reclaimed water from the Apache Junction Sewer District and lease spare fiber-optic strands so the sewer district can access an internet provider at the water treatment plant.
The Apache Junction Water Utilities Community Facilities District on Sept. 16 approved Resolution No. 2025-006, authorizing an intergovernmental agreement with the Apache Junction Sewer District to buy reclaimed (effluent) water and to lease spare fiber-optic cable strands for communications service. Chairperson Wilson presided over the unanimous vote.
The districts district director, identified in the meeting as Mike, told the board the sewer district will sell effluent to the water district at a negotiated price and the water district will resell that reclaimed water to end customers for irrigation uses, park lakes and turf applications in the subdivisions to the south, including Blossom Rock and Radiance. "We have an agreement with both the developers, to the south and state land for Blossom Rock and Radiance," Mike said.
Mike described a separate, non-water element of the agreement: the water district ran a fiber-optic line between the treatment plant and the sewer district when it installed the nonpotable tank, leaving extra strands. "We're gonna lease those strands to the sewer district so they can tie into an Internet provider that's on our site at the treatment plant," he said, adding the leased connection should reduce service drops and speed communications for the sewer districts billing and operations.
The district also obtained required permits from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to distribute reclaimed water and must post signage where reclaimed water is used. Mike said the parties will lease the sewer districts land for a storage tank that will let the district pump effluent south to a lake and then to parks and irrigation systems in adjacent subdivisions.
The board discussed the item and then voted to approve the resolution. The sewer district had approved the agreement at its board meeting prior to the Water District vote; the agreement takes effect after both bodies' approvals and fulfillment of permit conditions.
Board members did not identify a separate implementation timeline during the presentation; Mike said the parties are finalizing permits and site arrangements so the district can place its tank on sewer-district property and begin deliveries once operational conditions are met.
