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A private water company wants to build a 57-acre water-recharge facility and office complex in Goodyear near Luke Air Force Base and across the street from Litchfield Park.

Liberty Utilities and the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District have partnered to build the state's first public-private reclaimed-water recharge facility. The groundwater replenishment district will pay for about $6 million of the potential $8 million project, and Liberty will pay the remaining $2 million, said Greg Sorensen, president of Liberty Utilities' Arizona and Texas divisions.

Liberty Utilities serves more than 17,500 water and wastewater customers in Maricopa County, mostly Goodyear residents who live north of Interstate 10 and Litchfield Park residents.

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The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District is the groundwater replenishment authority of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District commonly known as the Central Arizona Project.

The project will impact water rates, though by how much isn't known. Ratepayers will pick up the $2 million cost to Liberty, Sorensen said.

"Anytime we invest money into utility assets, there ultimately will be an impact on rates," Sorensen said. "But because we are able to work with (the conservation district) and obtain $6 million in funding, that's $6 million we don't have to invest in the utility."

Construction of the project will begin next year and will be completed sometime in mid- to late-2016, depending on permitting, Sorensen said.

The proposed plant, north of Camelback Road between Sun Health and the Falcon Dunes Golf Course, will consist of a 15,000-square-foot office building and potentially six recharge basins built to hold reclaimed water that will percolate into the ground and the aquifer.

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Liberty Utilities to build water-recharge plant in Goodyear