Pine Bluff Wastewater Utility

The average home in Pine Bluff uses 350 gallons of water every day.  Area industries and businesses may require a thousand times that amount.

After use, this water becomes wastewater-unfit for further use until it has been cleaned and returned to nature’s cycle.  That is the job of the Pine Bluff Wastewater Utility.

We’re here to help provide nature’s proven way of cleaning water, and to provide a last defense against the polluting of our precious water supplies. It’s a big job. Each year, we treat approximately 5.1 billion gallons of wastewater.  We maintain 400 miles of wastewater lines, and operate and maintain 42 pumping stations to move wastewater through the system.

It is a full time job! Chemist, biologists, equipment specialist, electricians, engineers, supervisors and utility men are all employed to the job done- 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

It’s a critical job. Not only do we make sure that the wastewater entering our lakes and streams is clean, we are responsible for monitoring local industries, making sure that our wastewater system is kept free from toxic and hazardous waste.

It is an expensive job. Pine Bluff Wastewater Utility operates on an annual budget with revenues coming from monthly sewer fees. No tax money is used.

For over one hundred years, since the first wastewater lines were installed from Barraque Street to 7th Avenue and from Linden to Missouri Street, Pine Bluff Wastewater has been on the job. Collecting, transporting and treating as much as 20 million gallons of Pine Bluff’s domestic and industrial wastewater every day, expanding and maintaining an intricate network of wastewater lines – including the original lines put in over a century ago, and operating an 8.5 million dollar treatment facility for maximum results.

Before the treatment of wastewater became a standard practice, the amount of waste being released into the environment was a real hazard – the source of many life threatening diseases and the cause of dangerous pollution.

Today thanks to modern methods of collection and treatment practiced by facilities in Pine Bluff Wastewater Utility, we can all enjoy clean water and better health than ever before.