Category: Featured Customer Stories

Parallel Pipelines Offer Oconee County Flexibility for Future Demand

A growing trend among U.S. cities and counties is installing parallel water and wastewater pipelines to address future needs. With this type of forward thinking, utilities are able to reduce maintenance issues and expenses. So, when Oconee County, South Carolina, was looking to provide sewer services for its Golden Corner Commerce Park to bring new industry to the area, the decision was clear: Two wastewater pipelines would be installed side by side in the same trench.

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Building It Right: State-of-the-Art Wastewater Treatment Plant in Escambia County, Fla.

Planning for a new wastewater treatment plant in Pensacola, Fla., had already begun when Hurricane Ivan hit in 2004. But that planning accelerated after Ivan’s Category 3 winds pummeled the area, knocked out operations at the city’s downtown wastewater treatment plant and caused untreated sewage to flow in the streets with Ivan’s storm surge.

ECUA’s response to the hurricane is now the state-of-the-art Central Water Reclamation Facility (CWRF), which began operations in August 2010.

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