Cross Creek Water Reclamation Facility

  • Location: 601 N. Eastern Blvd. (Hwy 301)
  • Built: 1959
  • Original Capacity: 9 Million Gallons a Day (MGD)
  • Expansions: 16 MGD (1976); 22 MGD (1992); Up-rated 25 MGD (2002)
  • Current Treatment Capacity: 25 MGD
  • Features: Septic Receiving Station for use by commercial septic tank operators
  • Maximum Monthly Average: 13.4 MGD
  • Yearly Average: 12.1 MGD
  • Awards: 1992 National Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Operations and Maintenance Award

Rockfish Creek Water Reclamation Facility

  • Location: 2536 Tracy Hall Rd. (Old Wilmington Rd.)
  • Built: 1985
  • Original Capacity: 6 Million Gallons a Day (MGD)
  • Expansions: 12 MGD (1994); 16 MGD (2002); 21 MGD (2007)
  • Current expansion plans: Phase 2 of 3 phase expansion has been completed; Phase 2 increaseed capacity to 21 MGD; Phase 3 will increase capacity to 24 MGD
  • Current Treatment Capacity: 21 MGD (2002)
  • Maximum Monthly Average: 14.5 MGD
  • Yearly Average Flow: 13.0 MGD
  • Awards: 1988 National Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Operations and Maintenance Award

The PWC also implements a water reuse program at the two water reclamation facilities. The treated water produced from each plant is used to irrigate approximately 40 acres of landscaped turf at the two facilities. The recycled water is also utilized for in-plant use such as seal water, cleaning of equipment and for various plant processes.

PWC Farm

PWC is putting waste to work. Under a state-monitored Land Application Program, recycled biosolids are already at work on over 5,000 acres of farmland in Cumberland County and adjoining counties, including a 700-acre farm owned by PWC. Liquid biosolids are either injected below the ground or applied to the surface at the agronomic rate (the nitrogen rate required by the crop) needed to fertilize crops such as corn, soybeans, coastal bermuda grass and small grains. Inspections and research by state regulatory agencies have shown this process to be a beneficial and environmentally sound way to recycle by-products from the water reclamation facilities since 1987. For further information, call our bio-solids hotline a 223-4770.

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