Wastewater Plant Manager: Stacy LaFay,  634-7919

The Sewer Collection division oversees all maintenance and operations of sixteen sewer lift stations, the manholes and distribution/collection lines throughout the city. The crew is on call 24/7 for emergency call outs for power outages, main line backups, hazardous spills, and clean up. We do sewer cleaning to clean twenty five percent of sewer lines or more every year.  We also look for damaged lines or manholes allowing us to slow down the I/I that the treatment plant must take care of thus helping in treatment cost and storage saving to the facility.

The Wastewater Treatment division operates the wastewater treatment plant, as well as J-ditch mixing station. We are responsible for the maintenance of pumps, filters, aerators, disinfection equipment, laboratory analysis and reporting to state and federal agencies for wastewater monitoring requirements.

What is the large pond southwest of town
on Deinhard Lane? Is that where our wastew ater goes?

Wastewater from City residents is collected and delivered to the City Wastewater Treatment Plant, the large ponds on the north side of Deinhard Lane. Here the water is treated and aerated then pumped over to the even larger storage pond on the south side of Deinhard Lane. Operation of this storage pond began in the summer of 2002 in response to a federal requirement to eliminate wastewater discharge by the City into the Payette River.

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The water is held here until it can be delivered to farmers and ranchers in the valley to irrigate fields. Normally the City starts providing the treated wastewater for irrigation between June 1st and 15th. The pond can fill up quickly due large amounts of snow melt, excessive water usage and/or a lack of water conservation on the part of City residents. We all need to do our part to conserve so that the pond can contain all of the treated water until the farmers are ready to receive irrigation water.