Wastewater Operations
Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility aerial shot
Wastewater Facts
- The District’s sanitary sewer system covers approximately 100 square miles and serves approximately 20,000 customer accounts.
- A faulty manhole can admit 10-50 gallons of storm water per minute to sewer system. There are roughly 9,000 sewer manholes in the HPUD service area.
- There are 16 sewer lift stations in the District’s service area.
- Each person generates an average of 100 gallons of wastewater daily.
- Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant treats and average of 8 MGD (million gallons day).
- Just 1 home gutter connected to the sewer can generate 15 gallons of water per minute during rainfall.
- The Hallsdale-Powell Utility District maintains 415 miles of wastewater collection pipe.
- The average sewer pipe serves 200 residences. If one inch of rain infiltrates that same pipe it will only serve 8 homes.
