This Week's Updates:

• Treated Wastewater Reuse Roadmap Developed

Treated Wastewater Reuse Roadmap Developed

The Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan (LINAP) Water Reuse workgroup recently published a “Treated Wastewater Reuse Roadmap” that will help municipalities and engineering and consulting firms navigate DEC’s permitting and regulatory process for projects involving treated wastewater effluent reuse. The interactive roadmap was developed in response to a recommendation by the workgroup, which had been tasked with investigating wastewater reuse as a possible means of achieving additional nitrogen removal prior to effluent discharge to groundwater and surface waters on Long Island.

Properly treated wastewater effluent has been reused around the country and the world to achieve water conservation and environmental protection goals, such as reducing pressure on local water supplies, replenishing aquifers, and reducing nutrient inputs to surface waters and groundwater. Facilitating wider adoption of this practice for additional nitrogen removal is an early action item in the Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan.