Departments
& Services
Water &
Wastewater Department
Superintendent : Hardy Jackson
tel: (843)774-0047
fax: (843)774-0048
hjdillon@bellsouth.net
Director : Tammy Jackson
tel: (843)774-0047
fax: (843)774-0058
tsjdillon@bellsouth.net
Water Distribution
The Water Distribution Division
operates and maintains the city's water distribution system
to provide customers with a reliable source of water for fire
protection, residential, commercial, and industrial consumption.
The division administers a back flow prevention program, leak
detection and repair program, hydrant and valve maintenance
program, and a system flushing program, in addition to making
taps for new customers.
Water Treatment Plant
The Water Treatment Plant Division
operates and maintains the city's 4 well ground water system.
The city has a storage capacity of 430,000 gallons in reservoirs
and 625,000 gallons in elevated storage tanks (a total of 1,055,000
gallons). The division currently produces 1.4 million gallons
per day. The city is in the process of building a new water
treatment plant (storage capacity 1,000,000 gallons) that will
have iron filtration. The division is responsible for producing
potable water which meets the safe standards and criteria established
by the EPA
and SCDHEC.
All 4 water plants are classified as "C" level water
treatment plants and must be operated 7 days a week by certified
"C" level or higher licensed operators.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Wastewater Treatment
Plant Division is responsible for operation and maintenance
of the city's wastewater treatment plants and sewage lift stations/wastewater
collection system. The plant is operated in compliance with
all EPA and
SCDHEC regulations
to ensure that all treated effluent discharged into Little Pee
Dee River and applied onto Cypress Pond Spray field meets permit
limits.
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The division also administers a
sewer use and industrial pretreatment ordinance, and monitors
all industrial waste discharged into the system. The Little
Pee Dee River Treatment Plant is designed to treat and discharge
4.0 million gallons per day to the Little Pee Dee River, 1.0
million gallons per day to a 35 million holding pond located
at Cypress Pond Treatment Plant. The Cypress Pond Treatment
Plant is designed to treat 1.0 million gallons per day, which
in turn is land applied (sprayed) on an 1100 acre spray site
(Cypress Pond Spray field) only of which 637.3 acres are actually
sprayed.
The Little Pee Dee River Treatment
Plant currently treats approximately 2.3 million gallons per
day, and the Cypress Pond Treatment Plant treats 0.5 million
gallons per day. Both treatment plants are classified as "A"
wastewater treatment plants, and must be operated by an "A"
level licensed operator 7 days a week. The division also operates
and maintains 22 sewage lift stations and Wastewater Collections
System seven days a week.
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Water/Sewer
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The Water and Sewer Superintendent(Hardy
Jackson) and Director(Tammy
Jackson) oversee the water distribution system,
wastewater treatment plants, lift stations, and the wastewater
collections system. All three divisions maintain on-call status'
to provide 24-hour trouble service.
