Eastside Utility District

Eastside Utility District Drinking Water Report Info
Eastside Utility District some time ago known as the East Brainerd Water Company was contracted in 1958 under the Tennessee Utility District Act of 1937. The District initially served clients in unincorporated areas of Chattanooga and Hamilton County. Throughout the years the district has experienced a few intentional changes by its characterized administration area, accommodating for addition by the City of Chattanooga. These extensions brought about Eastside's help area extending outward away from the City's development, pushing the District limits further into Hamilton and Bradley counties and in this way making a lot bigger and progressively country administration area. With a help area currently hovering around 70 square miles, Eastside Utility gives access to a solid and boundless wellspring of stock through a progression of system interconnections, to various contiguous water utilities in a few counties. Eastside Utility stays ready to satisfy any expanded future need necessities produced by natural development inside the current help area or extension of the administration area, for a long time to come. Administration Area: Eastside Utility District gives water to consumers in Hamilton and Bradley counties and through discount meters to consumers in Catoosa and Whitfield counties. Eastside's characterized administration area exists in Bradley and Hamilton counties where we straightforwardly serve around 66,000 inhabitants in a 51 square mile area of Hamilton County, conveying water through 467 miles of water mains. In Bradley County we straightforwardly serve roughly 19 square miles of for the most part a provincial area, serving around 1,855 inhabitants, conveying water through 35 miles of water mains. Eastside Utility additionally deals water to discount clients including; Savannah Valley Utility District, Ocoee Utility District, Cleveland Utilities, Catoosa County Water Authority and Dalton Utilities. Our administration area additionally incorporates the Enterprise South Industrial Park which fills in as the grapple for continued development and economic advancement for Chattanooga and the encompassing tri-state area. Treatment Facilities and Source of Supply: Source of Supply: When Eastside Utility was initially contracted in 1958 it built up a progression of wells situated on Short Tail Springs Road known as Carson Springs. This was the essential wellspring of stockpile until Eastside Utility procured its present treatment plant. Treatment Plant - General Information: The water treatment plant sits on a 125 section of land tract situated at the crossing point of Hickory Valley Road and State Route Highway 58. Crude water is taken from the Tennessee River at the Chickamauga Reservoir and afterward siphoned roughly 1? miles east to the treatment plant. The water at that point streams by gravity through the treatment procedure and is in this manner siphoned into the conveyance system for conveyance to the client. Treatment Plant Treatment Process: Raw, untreated water is taken from the Tennessee River where it is gone through a progression of chambers, meshes and screens to expel bigger flotsam and jetsam like tree appendages, twigs, leaves and so on. The water is then siphoned through a 48-inch steel principle venturing out roughly 1? miles to the crude water store situated at the water treatment plant. The water at that point streams by gravity, at controlled rates from the crude water supply to the flocculation chambers where coagulant synthetic concoctions are included and flocculation (mammoth blending paddles) tenderly mix the water, making the finely suspended particles become overwhelming and rapidly drop out of the water. The water continues its adventure through the sedimentation bowl and cylinder pilgrims where the particulate expulsion procedure continues. Water is then directed to the blended media channels for the last stage in the separating procedure. This procedure expels microbial level particles by going the water through a few layers of changing coarseness channel media material, including initiated carbon. The last stage in the treatment procedure is to include disinfectant (chlorine), fluoride and a corrosion inhibitor only preceding the completed water being put away in the clear wells (enormous encased containment stores) holding on to be siphoned into the dissemination system for definite conveyance to client's tap. The whole water treatment process through and through takes by and large around 10 to 12 hours to complete..