City to Sell Recycled Water to Vineyards, Golf Courses

Instead of paying local landowners to take its recycled water, the city will now sell it to nearby golf courses and vineyards.

In the past, Petaluma has paid Rooster Run Golf Course, Adobe Creek Golf Course, Karren Vineayard and Jackson Family Investments, which is developing a new vineyard, to take the treated water, according to a story in Thursday’s Argus Courier.

But under a new agreement, these companies will now pay the city a total of $219,000 a year for the recycled water that they use to irrigate fields.

The goal is to eventually pipe in more treated wastewater to Petaluma’s parks, schools and other city owned properties, although doing so will require additional “purple pipe” to be laid down.

Want to know more? Pick up a copy of this week’s Argus Courier.

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