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PLANT FUNCTION:
The Fred Hervey plant treats 12 million gallons of wastewater daily from nearby homes, businesses and industries. The reclaimed water is sent to irrigation and industrial users. Customers include the Newman Power Plant, Painted Dunes Golf Course and the Northeast Regional Park. Every gallon of reclaimed water used reduces the amount of water pumped from the Hueco Bolson aquifer or diverted from the Rio Grande.
To learn more about the Fred Hervey Water Reclamation Plant please visit: https://www.epwater.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=6843488&pageId=10884159
CE: What projects in the El Paso area have your worked on?
JC: There are standout projects I was heavily involved in here in El Paso that helped increase the water supply in our city. The Fred Hervey Water Plant was the first major state-of-the-art project in the country that took wastewater, cleaned it, and put it back in our drinking water system through an indirect connection with water being injected into the ground and extracted years later. Most recently, I worked on the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Desalination Plant which was unique because it took saltwater and through a desalination process of reverse osmosis, removed the salt to produce fresh water. Another project I directed with great satisfaction brought water and wastewater service to low-income areas in the Lower Valley, San Elizario, Socorro, and Sparks. In the 90's, a lot of those communities were without a public water system or public sewage. With the Texas Water Development Board, I worked on those projects for about ten years, serving about 40,000 people. It was very satisfying that we as an engineering company, Moreno-Cardenas Inc., were instrumental in helping those communities.
Joe Cardenas
Title: Consulting Engineer/ Design/ Project Manager