Water Sector News

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Construction is underway for a project that will treat wastewater to refill a rapidly shrinking aquifer that provides water for hundreds of thousands of people in Hampton Roads.

Last week, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District celebrated the beginning of work on the first full-scale water treatment facility in Newport News for the Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Tomorrow program, known as SWIFT.

The James River SWIFT facility is expected to be operational in 2026 and will provide the Potomac aquifer with up to 16 million gallons of water per day. It’s part of a larger network of facilities that will be able to fill the aquifer with about 100 million gallons of drinking-quality water a day by 2032, according to a news release from HRSD.