1,145 miles of sewer inspected under Sewer Separation Evaluation Survey.
This is enough to loop Interstate 285 twenty-two times.
The City of Atlanta has repaired or replaced 347 miles of sewer under the Sewer Rehabilitation Program. That is greater than the distance between Augusta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama.
Atlanta had water pipes before there were even telephone lines. The first water pipes in the system were installed in 1875. (Telephone service was introduced in 1877.-Atlanta History Center)
Atlanta's three drinking water treatment plants supply a total of 246.4 million gallons of finished water each day.
(Hemphill WTP, Chattahoochee WTP, and Chattahoochee River intake)
The City's wastewater reclamation centers (RM Clayton, South River, Utoy and Intrenchment Creek) treat approximately
220 million gallons of raw sewage each day.
The 8-mile West Combined Sewer Overflow(CSO) Tunnel can store up to 177 million gallons of stormwater overflow.