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- The District's sanitary sewer system covers approximately 200 square miles and serves approximately 90,000 customer accounts.
- There are 128 pump stations in Boone, Campbell and Kenton Counties.
- In addition to the 128 pump stations, there are 15 flood control pump stations that were acquired by the District.
- The flood station system includes 76 flood gates.
- The District’s flood station pumps are able to pump up to 62,000 gallons per minute.
- Each person generates an average of 100 gallons of wastewater daily.
- SD1’s Dry Creek Treatment Plant treats an average of 35 MGD (million gallons per day).
- It takes an average of 20 hours for a customer’s bathwater to travel through the sewers, go through the treatment process and be returned to the Ohio River.
- Each day the District prevents 63,000 pounds of waste from entering the Ohio River through wastewater treatment.
- The Sanitation District maintains 1,580 miles of wastewater collection pipe.
- The average sewer pipe serves 400 residences. If one inch of rain infiltrates this same pipe it will only serve 8 homes.
- Just 1 home gutter connected to the sewer can generate 15 gallons of water per minute during rainfall.
- A faulty manhole can admit 10 - 50 gallons of storm water per minute to a sewer system.
- A recent storm system inventory identified over 55,000 storm features, including 2,960 miles of open drainage system, 575 miles of closed storm sewer pipe, and 66 miles of culverts in Northern Kentucky.
- District’s staff inspects over 500 industries annually, to prevent heavy metals, solvents and toxic waste from being discharged into the wastewater.
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