Map: Work underway on Healdsburg recycled water pipeline
Work continues this week on the city of Healdsburg’s Municipal Recycled Water Pipeline Project. This project will provide recycled water for landscaping at city parks, the golf course, the cemetery, and some public school facilities rather than drinking water to serve these areas. Healdsburg currently gets about 80 percent of its water supply from the upper Russian River, making the city particularly vulnerable to supply shortages in Lake Mendocino. Approximately 20 percent of the city’s water supply is from Dry Creek via Lake Sonoma. The pipeline project will make the city more resilient to future droughts. During non-drought years, it will allow more water to remain in the streams and reservoirs, benefiting the natural areas surrounding local waterways.