Statistics
- Employees: 1,000 (FY 2009)
- Service area: 725 square miles (1,880 km2)
- Drinking water pumped: 108 million US gallons (410,000 m3) a day (FY 2009)
- Drinking water distribution
- Pipes: 1,300 miles (2,100 km)
- Pumping Stations: 5
- Reservoirs: 5
- Elevated water storage tanks: 3
- Valves: 36,000
- Public Hydrants: 9,000+
- Sewers
- Sanitary and combined sewers: 1,800 miles (2,900 km)
- Flow-metering stations: 22
- Off-site wastewater pumping stations: 9
- Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Largest advanced wastewater treatment plant in the world
- 150 acres (0.61 km2)
- Capacity: 370 million US gallons (1,400,000 m3) per day
- Peak capacity: 1.076 billion US gallons (4,070,000 m3) per day.
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