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For the past eight months, senior civil engineering students Caryn Wendt, Fatimah Alhaddad, Zaid Almansour, and Helal Alshaibani have been working with the City鈥檚 Public Works Director Michael R. Jaglowski, PE on their capstone senior design project. With Jaglowski鈥檚 help, the students have been looking into beneficial reuse applications for the cleaned, treated and finished municipal wastewater leaving the City鈥檚 Water Pollution Control facility.

鈥淏efore that water enters the Portneuf River, the City can still utilize it in some beneficial way,鈥� said Jaglowski. 鈥淲hat these students have done is technically and economically analyzed 12 different solutions to use our treated water. These solutions were engineered from the ground up to put our water to good use for locations like irrigation water for the City鈥檚 parks and golf courses or providing water for aquifer recharge.鈥�   

While the exercise has been theoretical in nature, it has proved valuable for both the students and the City.

鈥淯p until this point, we鈥檝e studied a lot of theory and calculations,鈥� said Wendt. 鈥淲ith this project, we鈥檝e been able to take and apply what we鈥檝e learned into a real world scenario.鈥�

鈥淔rom the City鈥檚 standpoint, if it were to ever build such a system, we can take the groundwork laid by these students and build upon it,鈥� Jaglowski said.

As they鈥檝e designed it, the system would feature eight miles of pipe to transport seven million gallons of treated water per day to different sites around Pocatello. The project also features a 45-acre detention facility designed to help recharge the aquifer.

鈥淲hen I started this project, I was unsure of what to ask or where to start,鈥� said Alhaddad. 鈥淣ow, I鈥檓 able to think through the challenges more and this experience will definitely help me as I move forward with my career.鈥�