This project is a success for all the stakeholders. In fact, on October 14, the PUD received only the second permanent ASR license to be awarded in Oregon. Here are just some of the reasons why: 1. The project results greatly exceeded the PUD's initial needs. More than 6 million gallons of water are capable of being stored in the sole ASR well-far in excess of the 1 million gallon storage capacity initially needed and six times the storage capacity of the PUD's three existing above-ground reservoirs. 2. Water quality within the receiving aquifer is improved by the addition of the source water obtained from other system wells. 3. The residents and users of the water have the aesthetic benefit of observing no change to the bucolic scenery outside their windows. Six million gallons of water stored invisibly underground is equivalent to a dozen half-million-gallon above-ground reservoirs-tanks that never had to be constructed.
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