Serving a quarter million people

An aerial view of the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's facilities.

The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority has been providing wastewater treatment service for residents of Luzerne County since 1962.

Though we have been a vital part of the community for 40 years, not everyone is familiar with our operation or our secondary treatment plant.

For instance, did you know ...

• Fourteen Luzerne County municipalities formed the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority in 1962.

· The original 14 municipalities have council-appointed representatives on the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Board.

· More than one-quarter million residents benefit from the wastewater treatment service provided by WVSA.

· The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority has about 95,000 equivalent dwelling units in its service area. That is roughly one-quarter million people.

· The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's service area includes 35 municipalities from Harveys Lake to Pittston to Newport Township.

· Wastewater is water and sewage that enters WVSA's wastewater treatment plant from homes, industries, schools and businesses, as well as some storm runoff and ground water.

· On the average, each Wyoming Valley citizen contributes 50-100 gallons of waste water per day.

· At present, the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority receives and treats an average of 25 million gallons of wastewater per day.

· Each day the Authority removes 10 tons of solids that would otherwise find their way into the Susquehanna River.

· On a daily average, you pay more for your morning newspaper or a cup of coffee than you do for wastewater treatment service.

· There are no holidays for wastewater treatment service. The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

· The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority employs approximately 100 full-time employees in various positions. Among them: operations, laboratory, management, maintenance and business.

· During our first 17 years of operation, the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority provided primary wastewater treatment services before converting to the current secondary treatment method in December 1986.

Wastewater treatment

Wastewater treatment service is essential to community well-being for two very important reasons:

• wastewater treatment service protects public health from disease-carrying bacteria and viruses and;

· wastewater treatment service protects water quality for both drinking water and recreational purposes.

Much of the funding needed to efficiently maintain, operate and modernize our plant is obtained from federal Environmental Protection Agency funds.

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