organizational profile (continued)
A Unique, Diverse System
- Delivery to Six Member
Governments
- 21 points of connection
- 8 pumping/booster stations
- 100 miles of collection/raw water pipeline
- 100 miles of finished water pipeline
- Groundwater Capacity
(151 mgd permitted source)
- 13 wellfields
- 180 wells
- 7 treatment facilities
- Surface Water Capacity
(72 mgd freshwater supply;
25 mgd seawater supply)
- 3 river withdrawal points; 1 seawater withdrawal point
- 1 re-pump station
- 1 15-billion gallon surface water storage reservoir
- 1 surface water treatment plant
- 1 seawater desalination plant
Water Quality Standards
- 90 state and federal Safe Drinking Water Act parameters
- 17 more stringent parameters established by member governments
- 7 additional parameters under study