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An 11 member Board Of Directors governs WASA. A General Manager who handles daily operations reports to the Board. DC is represented by six Board Members. Prince George's County , Maryland has two Board Members. Also, Montgomery County, Maryland has two Board Members. Fairfax County in Virginia has a single Board Member.

WASA purchases its Potable Water from the Washington Aqueduct which is run by the Army Corps Of Engineers . The Aqueduct treats the water and WASA's pipes make it available in DC.


STATISTICS


  • Employees: 1,200 (FY 2003)

  • Service area: 725 square miles

  • Locations served: 130,000

  • Drinking water served: 135 million gallons a day

  • Customers: 2,000,000

  • Drinking water distribution

  • --- Pipes: 1,300 miles

  • --- Pumping Stations : 5

  • --- Reservoirs : 5

  • --- Elevated water storage tanks: 4

  • --- Valves: 36,000

  • --- Hydrants : 8,700

  • Sewer s

  • --- Sanitary and combined sewers: 1,800 miles

  • --- Flow-metering stations: 22

  • --- Off-site Wastewater pumping stations: 9

  • --- Stormwater pumping stations: 16

  • Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant

  • --- Largest advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in the world

  • --- 150 acres

  • --- Capacity: 370 million gallons per day

  • --- Peak capacity: 1.076 billion gallons per day.

  • Revenue sources

  • --- Federal, municipal and county governments: 38%

  • --- Commercial entities: 40%

  • --- DC residential customers: 17%



HISTORY


The DC Government operated the Water and Sewer Utility Administration from 1938 to 1996. WASA replaced this administrative body in 1996.


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