- Location: Laguna Niguel
- Total Capacity:
- Liquid waste: 12 million gallons per day
- Solid waste: 20 million gallons per day
- Average Capacity Used Today: 7.3 million gallons per day
- Recycled Water Production: Up to 7.3 million gallons per day
- Year Built: 1982
Interesting Facts:
- The Regional Plant facility produces its own energy to save energy and costs
- Approximately 90 percent of the power needs are produced on-site from methane gas that is a byproduct of the treatment process
- SOCWA was awarded approximately $1.8 million in grant funding for on-site energy production
- Hundreds of students and interested residents tour the facility each year
- Some of the biosolids from these plants – also known as residual solids – are trucked off-site to a composting facility. Composted biosolids can be land applied to help grow non-food crops such as cotton and alfalfa.
Treatment Processes
- Screening
- Grit removal
- Primary clarification
- Secondary treatment
- Secondary clarification
- Anaerobic digestion
- Solids dewatering
Address: 29201 La Paz Rd, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
