The Livermore-Amador Valley Water Management Agency (LAVWMA) is a joint powers agency created in 1974 by the cities of Livermore and Pleasanton and the Dublin San Ramon Services District. Operations began in September 1979 with expansions in 1983 and 1987 for current design capacity of 21 million gallons a day (mgd) of treated wastewater. The wastewater is conveyed via a 16-mile pipeline from Pleasanton to San Leandro and enters the East Bay Dischargers Authority (EBDA) system for dechlorination and discharge through a deepwater outfall to the San Francisco Bay.

The Export Pipeline Facilities Program
LAVWMA is currently implementing a series of projects that comprise the Export Pipeline Facilities Program. This $170 million dollar program will expand LAVWMA wet weather disposal capacity from 21 to 41.2 mgd through rehabilitation of the existing LAVWMA export pipeline, installation of a new pipeline, and construction of a new 41.2-mgd pumping station. The Program satisfies three basic needs:

1. Repairs the failing portion of the existing pipeline
2. Increases capacity to serve future planned growth until 2040 in accordance with the member agencies' general plans
3. Increases wet weather flow capacity to serve planned growth until 2023.

The pump station will be located at the existing LAVWMA site near the intersection of I-580 and I-680. The new export pipeline will extend west from the pumping station, over the Dublin Grade, through Castro Valley and San Leandro, to a connection with the existing pipeline at the foot of Lewelling Boulevard.

Construction on the pump station and new pipeline began in Spring 2001 and will be completed in Fall 2004. Repair of the existing pipeline will take place concurrently in 2003.

For more information on LAVWMA and the Export Pipeline project, please visit the LAVWMA website at www.lavwma.com