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Short-term solutions
Long-term solutions
Along with the growing population in Holly Springs comes an ever-increasing demand for Town services. About one family moves to Holly Springs every day, and future population estimates continue to show the Town growing in leaps and bounds, with potentially 19,000 residents by 2007. Town leaders are constantly preparing for the future and the increasing demand for Town services, including the essential service of wastewater treatment.
The average Holly Springs resident generates about 75 gallons of wastewater per day; businesses generate varying amounts. Currently, Holly Springs is permitted to treat 1.5 million gallons of wastewater per day; Town leaders anticipate the need to treat 6 million gallons per day by 2025. In preparation for the future, the Town is pursuing short-term and long-term options to meet increasing needs.
More Information
Stephanie Sudano, P.E.
Director of Engineering, Town of Holly Springs
(919) 557-3938
Plant Expansion
In recent years, the Town purchased 25 acres of land surrounding the water reclamation facility that treats Holly Springs wastewater. The additional acreage will be used for future expansions of the current water reclamation facility.
Design on a plant expansion to allow the Town to process up to 6.0 million gallons of wastewater per day is under way, with construction slated to begin in 2007. Also under design is a pump station to send treated wastewater from the expanded water reclamation facility to the future Western Wake Regional Wastewater Facility. This pump station is slated for construction around 2010.
Reuse Water System
A new reclaimed water system is under design for construction in 2007. The reclaimed water system will recycle treated wastewater into irrigation water instead of discharging the treated water into Utley Creek.
The switch to using reuse water for irrigation will preserve drinking water, a valuable natural resource, while possibly allowing the Town to expand the amount of wastewater it treats without hitting barriers, such as the limit on the amount of discharge allowed into the creek.
Discharge Through Regional Wastewater Lines
Holly Springs has partnered with Apex, Cary and Morrisville – and Wake County on a joint approach to longer-term wastewater treatment needs. Holly Springs will pipe treated wastewater that now discharges into Utley Creek to regional lines, which will then discharge into the Cape Fear River. The state is requiring this approach, which is to take effect by 2011.
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