By Fred Pace, The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington’s wastewater treatment plant is the state’s largest, according to Brian Bracey, executive director of the Huntington Water Quality Board.
“We maintain an estimated 340 miles of sewers, some of which can be up to 72 inches in diameter, and many of which are more than 100 years old,” Bracey said in an interview with The Herald-Dispatch on Friday. “We have 44 sewage pumping stations, 131 individual grinder pump stations and a wastewater treatment plant that has an average flow of 13 million gallons a day.”
Bracey said the city is planning a $150 million upgrade to the plant, along with several other projects for the city’s wastewater treatment system.
“Just this one $150 million investment project into the plant will be the largest municipal infrastructure investment in West Virginia’s history,” he said. “Morgantown had a little over a $100 million project in the past, and that was the largest.”
