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Board approves American Flat groundwater‑banking wells for Truckee Meadows Water Authority
Summary
The Washoe County Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a special use permit for the American Flat well field to support the Advanced Purified Water Facility, allowing construction of injection, extraction and monitoring wells to create a groundwater bank of up to 11,000 acre‑feet.
The Washoe County Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a special use permit (WSUP25-5) for the American Flat well field — a roughly 479-acre project area that will host injection wells, extraction wells, monitoring wells, pump stations, two storage tanks and a water-polishing facility to create an underground groundwater bank of up to 11,000 acre-feet for the Truckee Meadows service area.
Planner Tim Evans summarized the project and said it is part of the larger Advanced Purified Water Facility (APWF) project, which will treat recycled effluent and produce up to 2,000,000 gallons per day of advanced-purified (potable‑quality) water for storage and later use. “The proposed project for the construction of the wells, the installation of the monitoring…
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