Wastewater Division

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

2016 Wastewater Pump Stations Flood Proofing Project