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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 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.
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 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.
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.
Clean Water Services is a special service district that serves as a separately managed and financed public utility. The Washington County Commissioners serve as the board of directors for Clean Water Services. [3] As a wastewater utility, Clean Water Services cleans more than 60 million US gallons (230,000 m 3) of wastewater a day. The ...
Volusia County Council candidates for District 3 talk about their priorities and one of the hottest topics in local elections: development.
George S. Hawkins is an American lawyer, college professor and environmentalist. He served as general manager of the DC Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) from 2009 to 2017. [1] Hawkins has worked in the environmental industry, as a corporate lawyer and as a regulator. He was named to his post at DC Water in a unanimous vote September 3, 2009 ...