American Public Works Association

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The City of Mesa's Central Mesa Reuse Pipeline has been named the 2026 American Public Works Association, APWA, Arizona Chapter Project of the Year in the Environment category for projects exceeding $75 million.

The state award recognizes this innovative infrastructure project designed to strengthen Mesa's water resilience.

The project includes approximately 10.5 miles of 36-inch pipeline and a new booster pump station that delivers reclaimed water to the Gila River Indian community as part of an exchange that provides Mesa with higher-priority Colorado River water.

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We are APWA accredited department since 2022. and we are up for renewal of our accreditation we'll we'll submit things here in the next few months probably be reviewed again in probably late january early february time frame of 2027 we are in out of the 40 chapters within the accreditation manual we are part of 34 and within those there are many different um components, some of them up to 36 different pieces within each chapter.

The last version of the manual, you had over 300 different practices that we were submitting on and becoming either fully compliant or partially compliant.

But we were full on most of them.

So, you know, surrounding localities, localities across the country.

You know, we are a member of the APWA, American Public Works Association.

We have been for years, even though we were named General Services.

They provide lots of training and things that we can tap into, and we've been doing that.