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An Industry Leader by Andrew Smith

rogressive leadership and This treatment process has received
sustainable practices are national and international attention as
keeping the Clayton County industry peers from around the world.
Water Authority on the leading Water management professionals from
edge of water management. Well Australia, China, and India have come to
before “going green” was hip, the observe CCWA’s methods.
Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) CCWA is proud to have been named
was developing and implementing a Georgia Clean 13 Water Hero and to
environmentally conscious, cost-effective, have earned other industry awards
and convenient water management from the Georgia Association of Water
methods to benefit the community
and beyond. Professionals. These include Wastewater
In the 1970s, CCWA selected a spray Plant of the Year for its Shoal Creek
irrigation Land Application System (LAS) Water Reclamation Facility, Biosolids
as the preferred wastewater treatment Programs of Excellence for its W.B.
method and constructed the largest Casey Water Resource Recovering
municipal spray irrigation system of natural, but also one that produces Facility and Northeast Water Reclamation
its time. Since then, CCWA has been pure water in accordance with all Facility and being named a Champion
recognized as a leader in sustainability Environmental Protection Agency and of Diversity.
practices not only in the Atlanta metro State of Georgia regulations.
area, but around the world. The result is 17.4 million gallons
In 2000, CCWA recognized of purified water per day at a cost of
constructed treatment wetlands as the $4.73 per gallon as opposed to $10 per
most reliable, sustainable option for both gallon with more conventional and less
treatment and water supply augmentation, sustainable methods. These practices
and thus a new technique was born. Today, also result in a reduction of maintenance
263 wetted acres provide filtration, plant and energy, as well as an increase in the
uptake, and an environment for county’s green space, which serves as
microbial treatment of the water a new ecosystem to Clayton County’s
in a process that is not only wildlife, particularly waterfowl.

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