Marana opens water reclamation facility
The vacant basin which will turn into a nature park thanks to Marana Water replenishing the aqueduct with reclaimed water.
Jeff Gardner
The Town of Marana will soon be turning sewage into a community park thanks to their recently opened Water Reclamation Facility. The “100 percent recharge” facility will pump purified wastewater back into the ground, refilling the aquifer and nourishing a nature park.
“Two score and one year ago, our forefathers and foremothers set out to incorporate this plot of God’s green earth,” Marana Mayor Ed Honea said at the facility’s grand opening. “And it was all about water.”
The new facility, located in the northwestern cotton fields of Marana at 14393 N. Luckett Road, was originally a far smaller operation owned by Pima County. Marana now manages the facility itself, and receives water credits for refilling the town’s aquifer.
