The Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Collection consists of paper records dating from 1952 to 1963 that document citizens groups' push for wastewater reclamation during the early development of San Diego's metropolitan sewer system, and controversy over various aspects of the city's sewerage plans. Materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, official reports and engineering studies. The bulk of the documents comprise the personal papers of Point Loma resident Dr. Richard E. Worthington, who headed the City-Wide Committee Against the Point Loma Sewer Outfall and the Citizens for Water Reclamation, groups opposed to the plan to construct a sewage treatment plant and ocean outfall on Point Loma. Also in this collection are the records of the Water Reclamation Commission established by the city to investigate the potential for a water reclamation system in San Diego, including the commission's 1963 report on a possible waste water reclamation system for Balboa Park and Mission Bay. The files are labelled, where applicable, with the name of the group or agency which produced the records therein. The collection is filed in chronological order.