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The Town of Windsor is already a
leader among communities nationwide
in the use of recycled water for the
irrigation of agricultural lands,
recreational facilities, schools and
residential front and back yards,
which saves millions of gallons a
year of precious fresh water for
drinking and other human uses. In
addition to the Town Green,
Wilson Ranch Soccer Park and the
Windsor Golf Course, here are
some other places where recycled
water irrigation is being used
successfully:
Irrigating Front
and Back Yards with Recycled Water
The single-family homes in
Windsor’s Vintage Greens
subdivision are some of the first in
Northern California to use recycled
water to irrigate their front and
back yards. The Vintage Greens
housing community is
sustainable, using the same
amount of recycled water that each
home contributes to the system. The
Town of Windsor provides free purple
irrigation pipe and other irrigation
fittings to make it easy for a new
homeowner to participate in this
significant water saving effort.
Recycled Water Use at Windsor
High School
Windsor High School is an
exceptional example of excellence in
water and resource management. About
40 acres of high school property are
irrigated with highly treated
disinfected recycled water, which
also is used to flush the toilets in
the 6-year-old school. This has
resulted in a savings of about 1.4
million gallons of fresh water
annually.
The use of recycled water along
with other “green” practices helped
the school and town share in the
state's highest environmental honor
for 2006, one of only 14 given out
this year by Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger. The Town's
government and school district were
singled out in the "sustainable
community" category for pooling
financial resources to help the
environment and educate students to
be good stewards of the environment.
Irrigating Crops and Storing
Recycled Water at Santa Rosa Junior
College’s Shone Farm
The Town of Windsor’s recycled water
is available for and used to irrigate
pasture land at
Santa Rosa Junior College’s Shone
Farm, which is located on the
eastern outskirts of Windsor. The
farm is a 365-acre diversified
college facility that is a hands-on,
outdoor field laboratory and
learning environment. Shone Farm
will also be the site of a joint
storage project between the SRJC and
the Town of Windsor storing
approximately 40
MG of recycled water.
Windsor’s Recycled Water
Quality
Windsor treats its wastewater to
tertiary recycled water standards
(also referred to as advanced water
treatment) which is the highest
level of treatment defined by the
State; this level of treatment
allows for unrestricted reuse in
virtually all reclaimed water
applications. The Town’s recycled
water is monitored and tested daily
to ensure that it consistently meets
these high quality standards.
For more information on Windsor’s
recycled water quality, please visit
Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation
System Facilities and see the
Town’s annual water quality
comparison report
(pdf).
Water Conservation
The Town is dedicated to an
informative and aggressive water
conservation program. The
Town of Windsor continues to be a
leader in promoting water
conservation through its Every Drop
Counts programs. These programs
include use of recycled water for
irrigation, rebates for low
water-use clothes washers, free
water-saving plumbing fixtures,
local school information outreach,
a free Water Wise Gardening CD
featuring low water-use plants, free
home and commercial water use
evaluations (audits), and
informational inserts in Utility
bills. Visit
Water Conservation or telephone
707-838-5357 for more information on
the Windsor Water Wise programs and
how you can participate in and
benefit from them.
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