Agency’s water recycling program kicking off

Plans to outfit the Santa Clarita Valley with purple pipe to carry recycled water are well underway, engineers with the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency reported Thursday night.

Members of SCV Water’s engineering committee met to review the status of all their ongoing capital improvement projects, with a half-dozen of them involving recycled water.

“The use of recycled water extends our drinking water supplies, reduces our reliance on costly imported water supplies and enhances our water supply reliability,” Brian Folsom, SCV Water’s chief engineer, told The Signal on Friday.

One of the agency’s most vigorously-pursued projects involving recycled water is the need to lay pipes for the Vista Canyon development project.

Vista Canyon, which is being proposed by Valenciabased JSB Development Inc., is a mixed-use housing project that calls for more than 1,000 homes to be built and almost a 1 million square feet of commercial space on 185 acres across the Santa Clara River from Canyon Country Park. It would be located between Sand Canyon and Lost Canyon roads.

Folsom, in his memo to the Engineering Committee, scheduled to have the pipe laid by 2020.

The task at hand: construct 6,300 feet of pipeline six inches in diameter for recycled water to serve existing irrigation customers in the Fair Oaks Ranch community.