Wastewater Division

 

Superintendent of Wastewater – James Costa
Assistant Superintendent of Wastewater – David Nieves 
It is the responsibility of the Wastewater Division to
  • administer the Operations and Maintenance service contract of the Water Pollution Control Facility
  • to insure that operations will meet all National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements and compliance with Consent Decree objectives
  • to continue implementation of the City’s Industrial Pretreatment Program as a method of source reduction of toxic compounds in the City’s EPA mandated collection system and treatment plant
  • to operate and maintain, with as high a degree of efficiency attainable, the 30 sewage pump stations (incuding those of New Bedford Housing Authority)
  • to maintain approximately three hundred miles of sewer surface drains and all system appurtenances
  • to operate and maintain, in co-operation with the army corps of engineers , all equipment and systems of the New Bedford portion of the Hurricane Protection Barrier
  • to be fully prepared, in cases of emergency, to utilize these facilities and equipment as intended for the protection of life and property
  • to assist in overseeing the construction of new facilities within the collection system such as pumping stations, force mains and gravity sewers
  • to establish an aggressive preventive maintenance program in the collection system that increases capacity and velocities and reduces inflow and infiltration

 

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2016 Wastewater Pump Stations Flood Proofing Project

 

New Bedford Wastewater Pump Stations Flood Proofing Project 2016 Final Report

 

2019 Stormwater Water Management Program

 

 

MS4 annual report 2021

 

MS4 annual report 2020

 

MS4 Annual report 2019

 

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