City of Grand Rapids Environmental Services Department

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The City of Grand Rapids Environmental Services Department oversees stormwater management, sewer maintenance, and wastewater treatment.

Here are just a few fun facts about the work we do:

• The Water Resource Recovery Facility treats 17,970 million gallons annually with a daily average of 42.6 million gallons and a peak of 90 million gallons per day.

• The Water Resource Recovery has a design capacity of 61.1 million gallons per day.

• The Market Avenue Retention Basin has a storage capacity of 30 million gallons and treatment capacity of 1.1 billion gallons a day.

• The Primary Effluent Retention Basin has a storage capacity of 10 million gallons.

• The Environmental Services Department operate 54 Sanitary Sewage Lift Stations, 9 Stormwater Stations, 4 Meter Stations, 4 Rain Gauges, 1,100 miles of Sanitary Sewer, 23,347 Sanitary Sewer Manholes, 383 miles of Storm Sewer, 11,355 Storm Sewer Manholes, 17,800 Catch Basins, and 7 Air Quality Monitors located throughout West Michigan which analyze about 50 parameters each.

• Our laboratory at the Water Resource Recovery performs about 90,000 analyses each year.

For more information about the Environmental Services Department, visit our website at www.grcity.us/ESD

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