All the disinfected, secondary effluent is put into the four lakes on the 105-acre Country Club golf course. Lake water (augmented by potable water during the summer) is used for landscape irrigation of the golf course. The operators of the Country Club are required to use all the recycled water produced at this facility for irrigation and receive the recycled water at no cost.

• Learn more about the Sanitation Districts' recycled water program
• Water Recycling Brochure

The La Cañada WRP occupies approximately one-third of an acre of the Country Club grounds. The plant began operation on October 5, 1962, with a capacity of 0.1 million gallons per day and expanded to 0.2 million gallons per day in 1971. In February 1996, an outfall trunk sewer (for waste activated sludge disposal and excess storm flows) was completed that connected this plant to the main sewer system in the Los Angeles Basin, officially making this plant a Joint Outfall System facility.