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OWASA has 343 miles of water mains and 294 miles of sewers. Its water is treated at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. [2] The organization was founded in 1977, [2] to plan and manage Orange County's water supply after the county had experienced years of recurring droughts. [3] OWASA has a rolling 5-year capital improvement plan for ...
29 North Carolina. 30 Ohio. 31 Oklahoma. 32 Oregon. 33 Pennsylvania. 34 South Carolina. 35 Tennessee. 36 Texas. 37 Utah. ... This is a list of water companies in the ...
American Water Works Association (AWWA) is an international non-profit, scientific and educational association founded to improve water quality and supply. Established in 1881, it is a lobbying organization representing a membership (as of 2024) of around 50,000 members worldwide.
In 2022, DEQ found 42 drinking water utilities serving at least 2.7 million people in North Carolina whose treated water contains PFOA or PFOS concentrations above the four parts per trillion ...
In Pittsboro, there have been three occasions since July 2023 where a “slug” of 1,4-dioxane emanated from a chemical company in Burlington, passed through a wastewater treatment plant and ...
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality wants to regulate eight specific chemicals that are found in drinking water in North Carolina, compounds understood well enough to determine their safe ...
The main block of the treatment plant is a three-story, three-bay wide mass topped by a hipped, battened metal roof, with flanking stepped back two-story sections. Also on the property are three storage reservoirs for treated water, dating from 1887, 1940 and the 1950s. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
The reservoir at that time had the ability to contain 800 million US gallons (3,000,000 m 3) of water. In 1999, a new dam was constructed downstream from the older dam creating the new Buckhorn Reservoir which covers an area of 2,300 acres (9.3 km 2 ) and has a capacity of 7 billion US gallons (26,000,000 m 3 ) when fully filled.