The Duke University Water Reclamation Pond improves the health of a degraded urban stream in Durham, North Carolina and captures Duke campus runoff for use in the university’s chilled water plant. Cleaned water is then sent into Sandy Creek and the Jordan Lake watershed of the Cape Fear River basin, which had over 35% of its streams listed as “impaired” in 2019. The project dramatically reduces the university’s annual potable water use and can supply the chiller plant for two weeks during a water shortage. Recalling the Olmsted Brothers’ 1924 Duke campus plans, the pond completes a grand axis focused on aesthetic and infrastructural performance. Sculptural landforms amplify the landscape experience: a forebay collects sediment and orients entrance views; wetland benches create diverse habitats, fix nitrogen, and filter phosphorus; and structures accommodate visitors in a range of new landscapes. Carved out of an ecologically compromised Piedmont forest, the project uses site-harvested pine for all structures, the trails, and mulch in the planting beds. As of 2020, the Pond is the only known example of a university in the United States using a stormwater retention pond to supplement its chilled water plant operations.