On August 15, 2000, the Anaheim City Council approved a funding agreement between the City of Anaheim, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), and Alstyle Apparel and Activewear (Alstyle). The agreement provides partial funding for a Water Reuse Project (Project) at Alstyle's dyeing facility in Anaheim that will reduce its monthly water use by about 11 million gallons. Alstyle is a high quality producer and finisher of textile goods and is one of Anaheim Public Utilities' largest industrial water customers. The funding agreement requires MWD to provide Alstyle up to $309,309 over a five-year period, while the Project itself will save Alstyle about $222,000 annually in reduced operating costs. Anaheim Public Utilities is responsible for monitoring the Project, verifying and submitting quarterly invoices to MWD, and processing payments to Alstyle based on the associated water savings. The Project is estimated to save 401.7 acre-feet (131 million gallons) of water annually resulting in savings of over 655 million gallons of water over the five-year life of the contract. As one of Anaheim's largest industrial water users Alstyle incurs substantial charges for fresh water and sewer discharge and therefore chose to view water treatment and reuse as a fundamental operation of textile dyeing and finishing. The primary goal of the Project is the installation of a water reuse system that segregates bath cycles from the dye machines as reuse water and as sewer discharge water. The water reuse system is sized to handle up to 30 percent of the planned water consumption rate. This will allow Alstyle to expand its production volume without exceeding its sewer discharge capacity. Since the official date of commissioning, February 6, 2001, the Project is operating smoothly and efficiently, averaging water savings between 11-12 million gallons monthly, only slightly more than originally estimated. Since MWD's Board of Directors approved the Process Component of their Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional (CII) Conservation Program in 1997, Anaheim is the first of MWD's 26 member agencies to successfully negotiate a water process change funding agreement. Anaheim is pleased to be the first, and is anxious to enter into similar funding agreements with other Anaheim businesses in order to protect and preserve our California's water resources.
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