DURHAM, N.C. -- The river will soon run through it again.

As part of a 1-month-old reclaimed water program, the City of Durham is giving 450,000 gallons of recycled wastewater to American Tobacco Campus to revive its man-made Ole Bull River, which was shut down last year to conserve water.

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The transfer of water started Tuesday and will take more than a week. Officials said they will truck in 75 loads of water at 6,000 gallons each. The 120-foot river runs through the center of the tobacco campus downtown.

The water is free from the city, but trucking the load will cost American Tobacco $20,000.

American Tobacco General Manager Paul Pope said the effort is worth it. 

“Being good stewards of the environment ultimately benefits the whole community, and that's good business," he said in a press release. "We’re fortunate the city now gives us a free way to conserve our water usage.”

Reclaimed water from wastewater treatment plants is used in area communities including Cary, Orange County and Durham for irrigation, landscaping, pressure washing and fountains. Reclaimed water is not drinkable, because it is not treated to the same standard as potable drinking water.

According to North Durham Water Reclamation Facility Superintendent John Dodson, roughly 50 percent of the water demand in the summer is for non-potable purposes.

With 20 million gallons of water coming through both of Durham’s wastewater treatment plants everyday “there’s plenty of reclaimed water available and plenty of opportunities to use it," he said.