WPC Services
WPC is responsible for protecting our area's
waterways from wastewater pollution.
This is really two tasks
rolled into one:
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First, we must collect the wastewater and get
it to a treatment facility.
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Second, we must remove pollutants at the
treatment facility and release the purified, reclaimed water back
into a local waterway.
The job is a big one. WPC operates a
complex network of pipes to collect Huntsville's
wastewater.
Placed end-to-end, the pipe would stretch about
1,400 miles... about the distance from
Huntsville to
Phoenix, Arizona.
Most of the sewer network uses simple gravity to
transport wastewater; water (and wastewater) always flow
downhill. But where gravity can't do the job (for example,
moving wastewater over a hill), WPC's pumps can. The
sewer network includes 63 pumping stations to keep the wastewater
moving.
The pipes, our
sewer
system, get the wastewater from homes, businesses, schools, and
other facilities in and around Huntsville to a
treatment
facility.
WPC operates six (6) treatment facilities, called
wastewater treatment plants. Together, the six plants have the
capacity to cleanse nearly 80 million gallons of wastewater
every day. Over the course of a year, that adds up to over
29 billion gallons.
Click these links for more details on
Huntsville's:
