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Folsom unveils 50-year Water Vision with pipeline redundancy, groundwater and Aerojet reuse options
Summary
Folsom utilities director presented a final Water Vision report recommending redundancy for the single raw-water pipeline, treatment-plant upgrades, development of nonpotable purple-pipe uses with Aerojet-treated groundwater and phased partnerships to diversify supplies; cost estimates range from planning-level hundreds of thousands to projects in the tens or hundreds of millions.
Marcus Yasutaki, Folsom's utilities director, presented the final Folsom Water Vision report to the City Council, describing a 50-year roadmap to secure the city's water supply and reduce vulnerability to a single-point failure.
The plan, compiled from six stakeholder workshops and more than a year of analysis, concludes the city faces three primary vulnerabilities: reliance on a single raw-water pipeline from Folsom Reservoir to the treatment plant, limited redundancy within treatment processes, and sensitivity to low lake levels. "We have 1 single raw water pipeline from Folsom Reservoir to the city's water treatment plant," Yasutaki said, citing a high risk for that single point of failure.
To address those risks the report recommends several portfolios: installing raw-water redundancy (a parallel pipeline or new intake), improving treated-water redundancy inside the plant, and diversifying supplies through groundwater and regional…
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