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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 ...
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]
In 1913, the Corporation Commission was given responsibility for regulating water and hydroelectric utilities. In 1920 the commission was replaced by a single Utilities Commissioner and some part-time staff. [1] In 1941, the General Assembly created the North Carolina Utilities Commission, composed of three commissioners serving six-year terms.
The new DEQ surface water plan is modeled after an approach Michigan regulators have taken to address PFOA and PFOS that were being sent from industrial plants, through public wastewater treatment ...
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 ...
Repairs are underway across Western North Carolina, including the main city of Asheville’s facilities, which serve more than 156,000 people in Buncombe and Henderson counties, according to the ...
This is a list of water companies in the United States. For more information see water supply and sanitation in the United States . This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Fayetteville works is a sprawling, 2,150-acre manufacturing site along the Cape Fear River about 100 miles upstream from Wilmington. Three companies have operations there -- Chemours, DuPont and ...