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SYRACUSE, Utah -- Parks and golf courses could become even greener, thanks to recycled grey water.
The North Davis Sewer District is studying whether treated water can be recycled on land.
"You wouldn't be able to even smell a difference," manager Kevin Cowan said, noting the water would be disinfected and treated with chlorine.
The $50,000 study, which began four months ago, is being conducted by M.W.H. Engineering of Salt Lake City.
Since the 1960s, the district has owned rights to every 15 cubic feet of water per second treated at the plant, or 10 million gallons a day. The state also has rights.
The study will look at the cost of using treated water compared to other sources.
"It's not likely to be cost competitive," Cowan said. "But as water in the future becomes more valuable and scarce, the economics involved would make it cost competitive."
A sod farm near the treatment plant is the most likely place to try it, he said.
The study will identify what needs to occur for the water to be designated for Type 1 uses, which would include golf courses and parks where public access is allowed.
"Water is one of your bigger expenses," Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course owner Jon Schneiter said.
The greatest expense likely will be pumping the water from the treatment plant to users, he said.
"It's all going to come back on the cost of delivering it," Schneiter said.
If the water gets used at the golf course, Schneiter said he would post signs telling people not to drink it.
More than 20 million gallons flow daily through the Syracuse treatment plant in Davis County.
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