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SAN FRANCISCO -- Even if its sports teams never win a
state
championship, San Francisco's Abraham Lincoln High School will have
the only
reclaimed water reservoir in California, or in the nation for that
matter,
beneath the school's football and track stadium.
As part of the Draft Recycled Water Master Plan, the San Francisco
Wate
Department and Department of Public Works is building three new
underground
storage reservoirs to store recycled water after it leaves a new
treatment
plant. The recycled water system will provide additional water for
fire
protection, landscaping, industrial cooling systems, and toilet
flushing. In
addition to the new tertiary treatment facility and three storage
reservoirs,
the recycled water distribution system will include approximately 34
miles of
new piping.
"Open land is not abundant in the (city district of) Sunset," said
Betty
Hong, project manager for the San Francisco United School
District's
Facilities Planning and Construction Division. "Abraham Lincoln High
offers
one of the few spaces where a reservoir can be built," added Hong.
To
compensate the high school for the inconvenience caused by the
construction
activities, the city will rehabilitate the stadium facilities when
they are
rebuilt.
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