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Fort Wayne City Utilities is pleased to offer residents the opportunity to see how the Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant and the Water Pollution Control Plant operate to provide customers with clean, safe, great-tasting drinking water and how we clean and treat sewage before the treated water is released back into the Maumee River.

Free tours will be offered in the spring of 2019 on the following dates:

Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant on Baltes Avenue just north of the St. Mary's River pdf(see map)

Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 10:00 AM - noon.  Guided tours will be given every 30 minutes with the last tour beginning at 11:30 AM

Water Pollution Control Plant at 2601 Dwenger Avenue pdf(see map)

Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 10:00 AM - noon.  Guided tours will be given every 30 minutes with the last tour beginning at 11:30 AM

Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 10:00 AM - noon.  Guided tours will be given every 30 minutes with the last tour beginning at 11:30 AM

Water Pollution Control Aerial The Water Pollution Control Plant is the critical facility that removes harmful bacteria and other pollutants from wastewater before it is released to the river. In fact, water treated and released from the Plant is actually cleaner than the water in the Maumee River. The Fort Wayne Water Pollution Control Plant provides wastewater treatment for the City of Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

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The Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant was constructed at the confluence of Fort Wayne's three rivers in 1933. When it was built, it had the capacity to produce 24 million gallons of treated water per day (MGD). Since the original construction there have been two major additions: a 24 MGD expansion in 1955 and a 24 MGD addition in 1981. The total capacity of the Plant today is 72 million gallons per day, enough to supply the needs of Fort Wayne for at least the next 10 to 15 years.
 
Learn more about how the Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant pdfcleans and treats drinking water for more than 300,000 people in the Fort Wayne region.

Fort Wayne's Biosolids Handling Facility is located at 6202 Lake Avenue.  See map
 
Each day over 27 dry tons of material is left over after Fort Wayne's Water Pollution Control Plant treats and cleans wastewater. This material is stabilized in large tanks before is is piped to the Biosolids Handling Facility. The facility has 105 acres of drying basins where the material is turned regularly and air-dried for more than two years before it is mixed with composted leaves from the City's annual leaf collection program. This biosolids material is then sold to farmers and made available at little or no cost to residents. Biosolids are regularly tested for safety and to determine the amount of nutrients in the material. Biosolids Nutrient Information - Spring 2019

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