Santa Margarita Water District holds groundbreaking ceremony for Ranch Water Filtration Plant
The Santa Margarita Water District is getting started on its first drinking water treatment plant, which will be in Rancho Mission Viejo. … The [Ranch Water Filtration Plant] will treat groundwater from the San Juan Basin to supply some 1.6 billion gallons of drinking water per year to customers, according to SMWD Public Information officer Nicole Stanfield. Currently, all the district’s water is sourced from Northern California and the Colorado River. The plant, however, would establish a local source of drinking water.