Kingman is finding ways to reuse treated water

The City of Kingman’s water treatment facilities already reuse solid waste for compost and are looking for a way to recycle the liquid waste, too.

Water is a dwindling resource for the ever-exploding desert population, and it’s time to find a way to make the best of what we have.

The same system that separates solids at the Hilltop Wastewater Treatment Plant also produces daily approximately 1.6 million gallons of treated water effluent into its 120 acres of wetlands north of the plant. Of that, one million is Class A effluent, and suitable for use in food crop, residential, school ground and open access irrigation, fire protection systems, commercial closed-loop air conditioning systems, and vehicle and equipment washing (not including self-service car wash).

The remaining effluent, Class B, can be used for surface irrigation of orchards and vineyards, golf course and restricted access irrigation, landscape impoundment, dust control, livestock watering, concrete and cement mixing, and street cleaning. It would be those one million Class-A gallons that could either be redirected through a yet to-be-built infrastructure or injected into the Hualapai Valley Basin aquifer that Kingman gets its water from. Wastewater Superintendent Keelan Yarbrough and Public Works Director Rob Owen are the go-to guys […]

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