Our sewer department has a Sewer Pretreatment Program which regulates industrial and commercial sewer discharge. New commercial and industrial customers need to be evaluated to determine if any of the rules and regulations of the pretreatment program pertain to their normal operations. Our Pretreatment Coordinator, John Hale, can be reached at 859-336-5454 or [email protected]. New industrial customers who are not sure if they must participate in the program are urged to contact the coordinator before a connection is made to the sanitary sewer system.

The Wastewater Treatment Plant is located at 182 Bloomfield Road. The SBR (Sequencing Batch Reactor) was constructed in 1997, which was a retrofit to the previously used oxidation ditches. The treatment capacity was 880,000 gallons per day with a peak flow of 1,700,000 gallons per day, at that time. The average daily flow in 2021 was 800,000 gallons. In 2022, the plant was upgraded with three new SBR basins to replace the 2 existing ones. This increased the wastewater plant treatment design capacity to 1,300,000 gallons per day with a peak flow of 6,000,000 gallons.