The Key West Wastewater Treatment Plant Facility, also known as the Richard A. Heyman Environmental Pollution Control Facility, is a state-of-the-art facility that treats wastewater to advanced standards. Constructed in 1989, the plant is designed to produce secondary quality effluent at a rate of 10 million gallons per day. With the completion of an upgrade in 2001, the facility now guarantees advanced treatment standards and discharges the highly treated effluent into a deep injection well, eliminating the need for ocean outfall.
Over the past five years, the City of Key West has invested over $67 million in sewer capital improvements, including the rebuilding of the collection system, the replacement of the ocean outfall with a Class I Deep Injection Well, and the upgrade of the Sewer Treatment Plant to an Advanced Wastewater Treatment facility. The success of these improvements is evident in the reduction of average flows from 8 million gallons per day to approximately 4.5 million gallons per day, thanks to the elimination of seawater inflow. Key West's wastewater system has received numerous top awards for its operational excellence and advanced treatment methods.
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