Facilities

Water Treatment Plants
Chattahoochee River Intake

Chattahoochee River Intake

The City currently has a raw water withdrawal permit of 180 million gallons per day (mgd) from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division (EPD). Water from the Chattahoochee River Intake enters and flows by gravity to the Chattahoochee Raw Water Pumping Station. This pump station was constructed to replace the old steam station. Water is screened and chemicals are applied to it before it leaves the intake. The water is sent from the intake to the Chattahoochee WTP by the Raw Water Pumping Facility. The Chattahoochee Raw Water Pumping Station was completed in 1994 and is rated at 220 million gallons per day (mgd). The pump station is totally electric and is manually operated. It is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It consists of five high service pumps that send water to the Hemphill Reservoirs and four low service pumps that send water to the Chattahoochee Water Treatment Plant (WTP) on demand.