Even though water is spilling at the dam that supplies drinking water to the East Bay after all the recent storms, officials are 'managing it as if there's going to be a drought next year.' Here's why.
About 90% of EBMUD's drinking water comes from Pardee Reservoir, then goes to the dam. From there, it goes to the Orinda Water Treatment Plant through aqueducts to be treated. They're undergoing a massive project to upgrade the plant.
ABC7 got a look at the construction site for the expansion of the plant, which will be the size of a football field."We have 90 miles of pipelines that come from the Pardee Dam all the way to this water treatment plant," said Tim Karlstrand, EBMUD senior civil engineer. "It takes between two and four days for the water to get here. Once it's here it goes through a filtration process similar to a BRITA filter that you might have at home.
"We'll be managing it as if there's going to be a drought next year because there might be a drought next year," Rowan said.If you're on the ABC7 News app,
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