The Southeast Houghton Area Recharge Project takes treated wastewater and pumps it into three large basins. The basins are built to have a bottom of porous earth.
That allows the water to filter down about 350 feet to an aquifer—an underground area able to hold large amounts of water.The process of filtering down to the aquifer adds an additional cleaning to the purification of the water received before it went into the basins.
The city says each basin can infiltrate about seven feet of water per day. That works out to 1.3 billion gallons of recycled water per year.
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