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Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 Vol. 25, No. 39
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The power of water

East Valley Water District
celebrates hydroelectric
turbines at treatment plant
By JAMES FOLMER It’s another milestone for
E DITOR the district, General Manag-
H IGHLANDC OMMUNITY N EWS
er John Mura told a gather-
t no longer costs ing of water officials, work-

I
the East Valley Wa- ers, Edison representatives
ter District any- and the companies that de-
thing to operate signed the turbines and oth-
the Philip A. Disch er parts of the project. The
Water Treatment $4.4 million generators are
Plant 134. In fact, in their own small building
it makes a profit thanks to at the plant northeast of
two hydroelectric tur- Highway 330 and High-
bines generating ex- land Avenue.
cess power that “For several
feeds into the years now, East
Southern Cali- Valley Water
fornia Edison District has re-
grid. ally put a lot of
Chris Carrillo, emphasis on
chairman of the making our in-
board of directors, vestments become
accepted a Commemorative more energy ef-
$231,650 check coins were handed ficient,” Mura
— part of the out at the ceremony. said.
self-generation The district
H igHland C ommunity n ews pHoto by J ames F olmer
incentive program — from has worked with Edison and
Edison at the ribbon-cutting other partners to evaluate Chris Carrillo, chairman of the east Valley water district board, right, inspects the larger of two
ceremony on Thursday, some of its older technology turbines that generate enough power to run water treatment plant 134 and then some. southern
Sept. 20. See HYDRO on page 10 California edison presented the district a $231,650 check on sept. 20.

District OKs guaranteed maximum price for Sterling center

By JAMES FOLMER tion can begin.
FUNDING THE STERLING CENTER
H IGHLAND
E DITOR
C OMMUNITY N EWS Inside Jeff Nolte, the district’s di-
rector of engineering and op- The East Valley Water District board last week set the guaranteed
nother water district Director James erations, told the board the maximum price for the Sterling Natural Resource Center at $147.5

A meeting, another
historic moment.
East Valley Water
District directors voted unani-
mously on Wednesday, Sept.
19, to approve a guaranteed
maximum price of $147.5 mil-
lion for the Sterling Natural
Resource Center, which will
treat up to 10 million gallons of
wastewater a day.
The cost is in addition to $2.5
million previously authorized
for the Beatty/Arcadis design-
Morales’ remarks
on what he calls
the most impor-
tant meeting of
his time on the
board, page 8
The design-build team, page 6
build team to prepare the esti-
mate, which must be approved
by the State Water Quality
Control Board for final loan
approval. That’s expected to
take six weeks, then construc-
center will be a state-of-the-art
facility that will treat all of the
wastewater in district’s 28.5-
square-mile territory.
After being purified using
million in addition to the $2.5 million allocated to begin the budget.
Proposition 1 Water
Bond and Clean
Water State
Revolving Fund $125.3 million,
$18 million, 12%,
from the San Bernardino
Valley Municipal Water
District for the reg-
1.8% interest 83.5% ional recycled water
membrane bioreactors and UV
loan. EVWD conveyance pipeline.
disinfectors, it will be stored in
customers are
the Bunker Hill Groundwater on the hook for $6.7 million, 4.5%,
Basin and eventually pumped $6.7 million less from a Proposition 1
out to provide 40 percent of than of the amount Water Bond and Clean
the district’s water supply. loan because of the Water State Revolving
Wastewater is now treated Proposition 1 water bond grant. Fund grant.
in San Bernardino and flows Source: Staff report from the East Valley Water District special meeting on Sept. 19
See STERLING on page 6 H igHland C ommunity n ews grapHiC by J ames F olmer

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