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Antioch, California

Water Quality and Conservation

Because Antioch's tagline is the "Gateway to the Delta" of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers at the San Francisco Bay, water management is a top priority for the city. The city’s Urban Water Management Plan, created in 2005, predicts water supply and demand until 2030 and ways to handle it. A partnership with the Delta Diablo Sanitation District may extend water recycling to the city of Antioch, and a pipeline that would bring recycled water to Antioch customers by 2011 has been proposed.

Recycling

The City of Antioch works to make public recycling available as many places as possible. With funding from the Department of Conservation, the city has installed recycling containers at parks, city buildings, Sutter Delta hospital, schools, the Riverside business district, sports fields, and during nearly every public special event. The Lone Tree Golf Course is one of the few courses in California with recycling receptacles at each hole—this program alone diverts about 1 ton of waste a month.