Danbury Water Department

Danbury Water Department Drinking Water Report Info
The Public Utilities Division is in charge of working and keeping up the City of Danbury's Water Division, water utility foundation, sterile sewer framework, which incorporates a few huge water supply dams, a shut landfill, landfill gas accumulation system, and overseeing programs for reusing and transfer of strong waste. The Public Utilities Division is additionally in charge of keeping up most of the City's armada of vehicles, and the whole armada of Police Department watch vehicles. The Public Utilities Division manages the agreement activity of the City's Water Pollution Control Plant as per the Wastewater Treatment Facility Service Agreement between the City of Danbury and Veolia Water North America. The Public Utilities Division additionally regulates the agreement activity of a public yard squander the board preparing focus, situated on Plumtrees Road, as per the Agreement between the City of Danbury and Total Landscaping and Tree Service. Public Utilities staffing directly comprises of 37 positions, including the Superintendent. Division staffing comprises of authoritative and client care work force, water and sewer utility support and development faculty, water treatment work force, water quality and specialized services work force, and vehicle and hardware upkeep work force. Our Accomplishments The Public Utilities Division works and is headed to accomplish three center missions. The Danbury Water Division (DWD) keeps on concentrating on the center strategic "furnish our clients with satisfactory amounts of great water that satisfies or surpasses the guidelines built up for the insurance of Public Health, just as give adequate fire stream to the security of public and private property." The DWD directly delivers about 6.5 million gallons of water for every day through day by day the executives of a water supply system that comprises of 8 supplies, 1 well site, 2 water treatment plants, 14 siphon stations, 9 stockpiling tanks, 200 miles of water pipe and 2100 fire hydrants. Our water's quality is constantly checked through 24-hour observing by water plant administrators and through every day testing. Around 27,000 water tests are performed every year to screen water quality. Roughly 11,000 water service line meters are set up and are utilized to charge clients for water use. The present populace of clients served by the DWD is roughly 65,000 individuals. Yearly assessment and routine upkeep of our 8 water supply dams keep on guaranteeing that they stay in great condition. We effectively work with the City Fire Department to guarantee fire hydrants are every year tried and fixed and supplanted as required. Continuous system upgrades incorporate the fruition of the new 1 million gallon solid water stockpiling tank at the WestConn Pump Station site. The Sewer Division has a strategic "give the City of Danbury and the neighboring Region with sound transfer and treatment strategies for wastewater and septic system squanders to guarantee the security of human wellbeing and the conservation of the earth". The Danbury Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) gives wastewater and septage treatment to Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, Ridgefield, and Newtown, and furthermore acknowledges septage from New Fairfield, Redding, and Bridgewater, and some out of region towns. The WPCP as of now treats a normal wastewater stream of 9 million gallons for every day and a normal septage heap of 10 million gallons for every year. Notwithstanding WPCP tasks, oversight of the sterile sewer accumulation system includes activity and support of 20 sewer siphon stations, 164 miles of sewer line, and 4,500 sewer vents. Our capacity, the executives, activity, and support (CMOM) program keeps on being streamlined to lessen the event of sterile sewer flood (SSO) occasions. The execution of our fats, oils, and oil (FOG) anticipation program through site reviews and FOG consistence training of all nourishment arrangement foundations is decreasing SSO occasions from happening in our sewer accumulation system. In Calendar Year 2017, the effective activity of our WPCP's between time nitrogen expulsion office by Veolia Water not just brought about a net investment funds of $1 million versus the expense of acquiring nitrogen credits had the system not been working, yet additionally brought about the City being paid $40,866 by CT DEEP because of the WPCP evacuating more nitrogen at that point was required in the General Permit for Nitrogen Dischargers. The utilization of recovered methanol, when accessible, keeps on diminishing the concoction cost of working this system. We keep on making upgrades to the current nitrogen expulsion system to further lessen generally speaking nitrogen evacuation and to the current phosphorus evacuation system to guarantee consistence with the ebb and flow NPDES grant for occasional phosphorus expulsion breaking points of 0.6 mg/l. Sewer accumulation system enhancements incorporate the consummation of the Oakland Avenue Sewer Replacement Project which will build sewer capacity. WPCP enhancements incorporate establishment of a new gas spread at the digester complex, establishment of new belt channel presses at the dewatering complex and beginning of the WPCP Facilities Upgrade Design. Updates are required to meet stringent long haul supplement (nitrogen and phosphorus) expulsion release license prerequisites and are required to supplant existing maturing systems and hardware. In conclusion, the Recycling and Solid Waste Division has a strategic, "regulate programs, which give Danbury inhabitants earth sound techniques for the board of strong waste". The Public Utilities Division administers the activity of the yard squander the board program just as directions Regional Household Hazardous Waste Collection occasions in our City. The City's Electronic (E) Waste Recycling Program was executed in 2011 and permits occupant drop-off of E-Waste at the Winters Brothers site at 307 White Street. The Public Utilities Division keeps on working the Landfill Gas Collection and Treatment Facility in consistence with the Department of Environmental Protection licenses and administrative models. The Danbury Landfill is a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) land transfer site and has been shut since 1997. The shut landfill is worked under a CT DEEP Stewardship Permit which solidifies all conclusion necessities of the landfill under a solitary license, and characterizes end focuses for the proceeded with long haul activity of this shut transfer site. We will likewise be surveying the plausibility of introducing a sunlight based power system at the Danbury Landfill..