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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) provides drinking water, sewage collection, and sewage treatment for Washington, D.C. The utility also provides wholesale wastewater treatment services to several adjoining municipalities in Maryland and Virginia, and maintains more than 9,000 public fire hydrants in Washington, D.C.
Website. www.wsscwater.com. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC Water) is a bi-county political subdivision of the State of Maryland [2] that provides safe drinking water and wastewater treatment for Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland except for a few cities in both counties that continue to operate their own ...
The plant has a treatment capacity of 384 million gallons per day (mgd) or 1.45 billion liters per day, with a peak capacity (partial treatment during large storms) of over 1 billion gallons per day (3.8 billion liters/day). The plant occupies 153 acres (0.62 km 2) in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and discharges to the Potomac River.
A recipient of the U.S. Water Prize [1] and many other awards, the District has a record of 98.4 percent, since 1994, for capturing and cleaning wastewater from 28 communities in a 411-square-mile (1,060 km 2) area. The national goal is 85 percent of all the rain and wastewater that enters their sewer systems.
The District collects and reclaims an average of 83 million US gallons (310,000 m 3) per day of wastewater. Current plans call for expansion of the district's facility to allow for up to 110 million US gallons (420,000 m 3) per day of wastewater to be treated, which will be needed as the Las Vegas Valley continues to grow.
Employees. ~2,800. Annual budget. $816.5m USD (2011-12) Agency executive. Dennis J. Herrera, General Manager. Website. sfpuc.org. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a public agency of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater, and electric power services to the city and an additional 1.9 million ...
Appearance. Drinking water quality in the United States is generally safe. In 2016, over 90 percent of the nation's community water systems were in compliance with all published U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) standards. [ 1 ] Over 286 million Americans get their tap water from a community water system.
The Agency's service area covers 242 square miles and approximately 700,000 people. [1] IEUA's supplemental water comes from both imported water and recycled water. The wastewater treatment facility consists of domestic and industrial disposal systems and energy recovery and production facilities.