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FACTS
AND FIGURES
- MAWC serves 115,000 customers in a five county region.
- MAWC has three water treatment plants which can produce over
60 million gallons of water per day.
- A new $30 million dollar water treatment plant at our Beaver
Run Reservoir.
- MAWC has 2,200 miles of water transmission lines; 5,000 hydrants;
56 water storage tanks; and 39 pumping stations in a service
area equal in size to the state of Rhode Island.
- MAWC water mains laid end to end would stretch from Pittsburgh
to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
MAWC Fact Facility
| Facility |
Year Opened |
Capacity |
Location |
| George R. Sweeney |
1996 |
24 mgd |
Bell Twp., Westmoreland Co. |
| McKeesport |
1990 |
10 mgd |
McKeesport, Allegheny Co. |
| Indian Creek |
1973 |
20 mgd |
Dunbar Twp., Fayette Co. |
| Indian Creek Expansion |
1979 |
45 mgd |
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Pennsylvania
20-Year Water Needs by Project Type |
| Transmission |
$2.83 Billion |
| Treatment |
$1.30 Billion |
| Storage |
$432 Million |
| Source |
$192 Million |
| Other |
$48 Million |
*The Municipal Wastes and Wastewater Market,
Zweig White and Associates, Inc., 1997 |
MAWC
40-Year Water Needs by Project Type |
| Transmission |
$92.96 Million |
| Storage |
$15.68 Million |
| Treatment |
$3.36 Million |
| *MAWC's 1998 Drinking Water Infrastructure
Needs Survey as presented to the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection |
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