The City of Grand Rapids Environmental Services Department oversees stormwater management, sewer maintenance, and wastewater treatment. Environmental Services staff are responsible for:
• Market Avenue Retention Basin with storage capacity of 30 million gallons of water and treatment capacity of 1.1 billion gallons a day
• Primary Effluent Retention Basin with storage capacity of 10 million g
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• 54 sanitary sewage lift Stations
• 11 stormwater stations
• 4 meter stations
• 4 rain gauges
• 1100 miles of sanitary sewer pipes
• 23,347 sanitary sewer manholes
• 383 miles of storm sewer pipes
• 11,355 storm sewer manholes
• 17,800 catch basins
Water Resource Recovery Facility:
• Treats 18,000 million gallons of water annually.
• Treats an average of 40 million gallons of water a day.
• Has a design capacity of treating 61.1 million gallons a day.
• Has a peak hydraulic capacity is 90 million gallons per day. Industrial Pretreatment Program:
• Issues, tracks, maintains, samples, and reports results for 85 significant industrial user permits.
• Tracks activities of over 7,000 non-domestic users.
• Responsible for industrial users in 10 outlying jurisdictions. To accomplish that task we must liaison and have each jurisdiction maintain equivalent ordinances that give IPP the authority to enforce those ordinances in those jurisdictions.
• Tracks pollutants and the effects on the WRRF by monitoring industrial sources of pollutants placed at strategic locations, to capture discharges from groups of industries.
• Monitors whole effluent toxicity per NPDES requirements on WRRF final effluent; samples are sent to two outside laboratories for toxicity testing. Laboratory Services:
• Performs about 15,000 analysis each year, about $300K worth of analysis.
• Coordinate the analysis of 6,000 samples through contract labs.
• Provide tours to approximately 1300 people annually.
• Maintain 22 real time continuous monitoring equipment for process control. 8 new monitors being added.
• Support IPP and Stormwater programs by providing analytical and technical services. For more information about the Environmental Services Department, visit our website at www.grcity.us/ESD
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