In February of 2020, Monterey One Water’s advanced wastewater recycling project, Pure Water Monterey, became operational after seven years of planning, delivering 3,500 acre-feet of water annually to the Monterey Peninsula’s Cal Am service area. That is more than a third of the region’s annual water demand, reducing dependence on the historically overpumped Carmel River. In 2023, an expansion of that project broke ground that will add another 2,250 acre-feet of recycled water to the annual portfolio; it’s expected to come online in fall 2025. With that date approaching, Dave Stoldt, general manager of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, has been making the rounds to various city councils apprising them of the proposed allocations each municipality will initially get out of the 2,250 acre-feet of water from the expansion of Pure Water Monterey.