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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Recycling potty water a step closer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Army Corps of Engineers on Friday gave Gwinnett County the go-ahead to run pipe from the F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center to Lake Lanier.
Here’s the straight poop: The new pipeline will enable the county to send the contents of your toilet back to metro Atlanta’s reservoir, where it can be converted to drinking water.
No, no, no. The icky stuff won’t go straight back to the lake. It will be “reclaimed,” county officials say. That means it’ll be made clean enough to drink again.
The reclamation system, which is expected to go online by late 2009, is expected to return 10 million gallons of water daily to the lake.
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