AppleInsider Staff
Apple, the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the city of Sunnyvale and the California Water Service Company may soon break ground on a joint $17.5 million project that will pipe recycled water into Cupertino and Apple's sprawling Campus 2 headquarters.
The water district board, which already signed off on budget and other agreements related to the project, is set to grant final approval during a meeting on Tuesday, reports San Jose Mercury News.
Apple has promised to contribute $4.8 million of the $17.5 million tab that will cover construction costs of a 13,300-foot pipeline from neighboring Sunnyvale and a local booster pump, the report said.
Participating in water recycling projects has become an attractive option for companies based in drought-stricken California. Such systems filter and disinfect sewage for use as non-potable water. For example, the publication notes Levi's Stadium uses recycled water for toilets and sprinkler systems.
Citing a California Water announcement from February, the report estimates Apple's Campus 2 will receive more than 157,000 gallons of recycled water for potential use in landscaping and other applications.
If the project receives approval, construction is scheduled to begin in August with a service start date in October 2016. That lines up with Apple's groundbreaking 25-year, $848 million clean energy deal with First Solar announced by CEO Tim Cook last month. As part of the agreement, Apple will buy 130 megawatts of power from the solar provider's upcoming 2,900-acre plant, which is slated to come online in late-2016.
AppleInsider recently provided a fresh progress update on Campus 2 construction, showing workers have finished erecting all five floors in a segment of the central "spaceship" structure's steel skeleton. Cook said he expects to move into Campus 2 by 2016.
Update: The water recycling plan has officially been approved.
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I hear there's a severe drought in California these days. Good thing Apple are planning to recycle their water.
BJ Frost: if you're implying that an angry sky god is sending a drought to punish California's liberals, keep in mind that most of the state is covered by the rural sprawl of very conservative farmers, and it'd be a Red State if it were not for the liberal, populated centers around SF & LA. In fact, the drought in California is mostly affecting Red County farmers, who rabidly fight against the idea of bars staying open past 2AM, the construction of Socialist High Speed Rail, and who liberally advertise their hate for gays, racial minorities and immigrants. Those farmers depend on socialized irrigation provided by the State far below market costs. Just California's almonds alone cover 1 million acres, and need about 4 acre-feet of water per year (that's a little more than 325,850 gallons/acre) or their trees will die. Agriculture makes up most of California's water consumption, and most of that is dependent upon State-subsidized irrigation. So if there's a sky-god holding back rain until the gays stop fornicating and Socialism is ended in all forms, He/She is insanely ignorant about a lot of things, and is punishing His/Her own most fervent worshipers the most. Either that, or climate change is real and we're witnessing it occur, as every scientist who is not funded by Big Oil has been telling us for many, many years now.
BJ Frost: if you're implying...
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[quote name="sflocal" url="/t/185401/apple-campus-2-recycled-water-project-set-for-final-approval#post_2697549"] Don't even waste your time on that miscreant. [URL=http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/185398/the-banning-of-benjamin-frost]http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/185398/the-banning-of-benjamin-frost[/URL] [/quote] Good point, but I think Corrections was just using BF as a rhetorical device to do some backstory fill-in. Anyway, I voted, thanks for the heads up.
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