Permit sought to discharge treated domestic wastewater to wash, Siphon Draw
via Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
Officials from Apache Junction’s sewer treatment plant are seeking a renewal permit to discharge up to 2.14 million gallons per day of treated domestic wastewater to an unnamed wash tributary to Siphon Draw in the Middle Gila River.
Superstition Mountains Community Facilities District No. 1, 5661 S. Ironwood Drive, in Apache Junction, applied for the permit from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. ADEQ proposes to issue the permit to discharge pollutants, according to a public notice.
SMCFD No. 1 has indicated that discharge to the wash will only occur when the facility cannot send effluent to the recharge pipeline or when recharge basins are off-line. All treated effluent is sent to seven recharge basins on the treatment plant property, according to a draft Arizona pollutant discharge elimination system fact sheet with the notice.
