Researchers received funding for the Specialty Crops Research Initiative (SCRI) Coordinated Agricultural Project “Clean WateR3 —Reduce, Remediate, Recycle—Enhancing Alternative Water Resources Availability and Use to Increase Profitability in Specialty Crops” in September 2014. This project stemmed from a coordinated effort by scientists through a multistate research group (NC1186 Water Management and Quality for Ornamental Crop Production and Health) that resulted in a 2011 SCRI planning grant titled “Containment, Remediation, and Recycling of Irrigation Water for Sustainable Ornamental Crop Production”. Planning grant dollars were used to bring scientists and stakeholders together, conduct a national survey, and discuss and identify water management strategies employed by progressive growers throughout the U.S. Funds were also used to recruit additional scientists, bringing together a multi-institutional research team, who prioritized research areas, refined project goals, and developed project objectives over an 18-month period. The team has expertise in socioeconomics, engineering, horticultural systems, plant pathology, environmental toxicology, and extension. Grant preparation was an iterative process that entailed three writing workshops prior to proposal submission. Overarching project goals are to encourage recycling and reuse of remediated irrigation runoff by developing an online decision support model available for grower use, and to research and select runoff treatment (remediation) technologies (TTs) suited for implementation at the individual site level. To support these goals, scientists will evaluate treatment technologies to remove agrichemicals and pathogens from operational water. These data will help to inform and test models that are being developed. This project will help growers treat and reuse operational water to save valuable water resources, and reduce the environmental impact of runoff water. Funding for this work was provided in part by the Hatch program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA–NIFA–SCRI # 2011-51181-30633 and USDA–NIFA–SCRI # 2014-51181-22372.