WPC Services

WPC is responsible for protecting our area's waterways from wastewater pollution.
This is really two tasks rolled into one:

• First, we must collect the wastewater and get it to a treatment facility.

• 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 1,300 miles... about the distance from from Huntsville to the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

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 57 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:

• Wastewater Collection System

• Wastewater Treatment Facilities.