Limit HOW Much You Send Down Your Drains
To ALL City of Bunnell Water Customers
Posted on: October 2, 2022 - 10:02am
October 2, 2022 - When you flush, shower, run the sink, do laundry or use the dishwasher, you make wastewater. If it goes down a drain, it is wastewater
Smaller pipes from homes connect to larger pipes under the streets. Your home and EVERY building- businesses, schools, government offices- all have pipes that lead to these City pipes. We call this our wastewater stream.
This is approximately 2,059 buildings sending wastewater to the treatment plant. This is in addition to any rainfall being handled by the stormwater system (canals and ditches that keep rainwater off the streets and out of buildings- your homes and businesses). This system was already severely overtaxed because of the rain falls that have been experienced in Flagler County since September 16th, even before Hurricane Ian arrived dumping even more water into the system and the City.
The City is dealing with approximately 1.472 BILLION gallons of stormwater and approximately 1.1 MILLION gallons of wastewater per day from customers/stormwater infiltration, when the design capacity of the treatment plant is 600,000 gallons per day.
If the plant can’t treat and process what buildings and weather are sending to it, it could lead to a sewer back-up on the streets and/or in your home/business. For this reason, the City asks you to limit HOW much you send through your pipes to the City wastewater lines until the plant can catch up on what has already been sent to it for processing.