Bay Area Recovered Water Funded Pumped storage Agency (BARWF PSA)
So let’s examine the idea San Francisco creates 80 Million gallons of treated water, The other bay area communities generate (placeholder) generate more. 80 MGD
The North San Mateo County Sanitation District 8 MGD dry season 25 MGD wet season
Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) 2 MGD
Silicon Valley Clean Water 108 MGD
Regional Water Quality Control Plant (Palo Alto) 39 MGD
WWTP | Clean Water Program San Mateo 60 MGD
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 80 MGD
SEP Plant – ssip_factsheet_treatmentfacilities_SEP_hh_061614
Our grand plan is that the wastewater would be sent uphill locally in San Francisco in the early hours of the Morning and that this water would generate power during peak hours. Local water after its generated power would recharge groundwater and indirectly recharge the local waste reservoirs. Some of the local treated wastewater could recharge San Francisco creeks. It should be mentioned that San Francisco local creeks where seasonal so that the greater pumped storage project might be required.
Most of the Regionals wastewater would be pumped uphill to storage facilities that would discharge into the drinking water reservoir system after flowing through the power generator this would not be local water but all of our treated wastewater discharged into the San Andreas, crystal springs reservoir and the Pilersitos reservoir
We wish to study treated wastewater from those members of the BAWSCA who are a part of the BAWSCA freshwater projects. A pump storage wastewater storage project means that the member organizations have an indirect fresh water supply. Traditional pumped storage facilities involve billions of dollars in reservoirs at high elevations but current battery storage technologies would eliminate this leaving only the piping systems and due to lack of a purpose-built reservoir a much smaller turbine
The water instead would flow to freshwater reservoirs already built and to stream restoration and groundwater recharge. treated water would be pumped uphill all day except for during peak power periods and the Telsa Giga battery would sell power during peak period prices. The system should pay for itself with power sales and reuse 200 Million gallons a day of treated wastewater delivered to the existing bay area water reservoirs.
It also makes sense for the 200 Million gallons a day to be pumped uphill utilizing solar and wind power.
The original wastewater pumped storage post is here Bay Area Recovered Water Funded Pumped storage Agency (BARWF PSA) SpaceX propellent tanks mass produced as shipboard water and LNG Build the ships at NASSCO shipyards in San Diego!
As a reference, Raccoon Mountain pumped storage project built and operated by the TVA has 107 Million gallons that produce 1,632 megawatts San Francisco Bay Area might represent 3,260 megawatts produced and stored in batteries
2016 State of Regional Water System Report_Final_Sept 2016
2015-16 BAWSCA Audited Financial Statements – CALLP Final
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