Just the Facts

The Department of Utilities provides the following services:

• Water
• Sewer Conveyance
• Storm Drainage
• Garbage, Recycling and Yard Waste collection and disposal
• Street Sweeping

The Department of Utilities maintains:

• 2 water treatment plants (Sacramento River Water Treatment Plant is the first rapid sand filtration plant built west of the Rockies and is still being used today)
• 2 wastewater treatment plants
• 1 Combined Sewer System (one of only two in California)
• 60 Wells
• 160 Pump Stations
• 3,988 miles of pipe
• 50,914 drain inlets
• 13 reservoirs
• 16,000 fire hydrants
• 2 closed landfills

Each year, the City of Sacramento Department of Utilities:

• Serves more than 480,000 customers
• Delivers more than 38 billion gallons of drinking water to customers
• Pumps more than 37 billion gallons of wastewater (sewage, combined sewage and stormwater)
• Collects more than 120,000 tons of garbage
• Collects more than 122,000 tons of materials that are recycled, composted or otherwise diverted from landfills
• Maintains more than 2,000 miles of water and sewer pipes