Protecting and enhancing our State’s water resources,
the NTMWD provides wastewater treatment services

Panther Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant

 

o cities and communities within the service area. The
NTMWD regional wastewater treatment plants are
designed, constructed, and operated using wastewater
technologies to protect the health of our communities,
preserve our precious water resources, and enhance
the quality of the water environment.

The wastewater treatment process removes
contaminants and other harmful organisms from the
wastewater, so that once cleansed at the treatment
plants, it can safely be released back into a receiving
waterway. Typically, wastewater treatment plants treat
only residential wastewater; however, the NTMWD
wastewater treatment plants also provide industrial
pretreatment programs for wastewater flows received
from non-residential entities. Pretreatment programs
establish responsibilities and standards for
non-residential entities to control pollutants that may
pass through or interfere with the treatment processes.
Since treated wastewater effluent is eventually used
again to supply drinking water, irrigate crops, and
sustain aquatic life, all processes and programs
implemented within the NTMWD Regional Wastewater
System are designed to have the least amount of
environmental impact to receiving waterways, while
maintaining standards established by Federal and
State regulations.

The NTMWD owns and operates four regional
wastewater treatment facilities that provide secondary
and/or tertiary level wastewater treatment services. In
addition, the NTMWD operates another 14 smaller
treatment plants included in the NTMWD Sewer System.

The NTMWD Regional Wastewater System and Sewer
System treated more than 32 billion gallons of
wastewater during the 2008-09 Operations Year
(October 2008- September 2009). Of the total
wastewater treated, 18 percent received treatment through the NTMWD Sewer System, while the remaining 82 percent received treatment at one of the four regional wastewater treatment plants.

During the same period, construction contracts within the Regional Wastewater System totaled more than $139 million. The largest expenditures included the construction and expansion of the Panther Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (RWWTP), and the expansion and rehabilitation of the South Mesquite RWWTP. Additional projects at the regional wastewater plants included improvements to the Muddy Creek RWWTP, Wilson Creek RWWTP, Floyd Branch RWWTP, and the Rowlett Creek RWWTP.

Other expansions, improvements, or rehabilitations to several force mains and lift stations included the Buffalo Creek Force Main and Lift Station, the Indian Creek/Preston Road Force Main and Lift Station, the Turtle Cove Lift Station, the Plano Spring Creek Lift Station, the Beck Branch Lift Station, the Princeton Lift Station, the McKinney Lift Station, the Indian Creek Force Main and Lift Station, and the Lower Rowlett Creek Lift Station.

View the
Wastewater Treatment Process.