The City of Emerson has one sewage treatment plant. The Henry Jordan Wastewater Treatment Plant is located at 287 Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Emerson. This facility was completed in 2002 and utilizes an extended aeration biological process, followed by disinfection and discharge of treated wastewater into Pumpkinvine Creek. This plan replaced an oxidation pond that had been in use since 1971. This facility is designed to treat an average of half a million gallons of monthly.
The Emerson sewage collection system serves most of the developed areas within the original city limits and is described by the Watershed Assessment report approved by the Georgia EPD in 2004. The existing sewer service area lies within an 852 acre drainage sub-basin draining southward to Pumpkinvine Creek and 340 acres in a sub-basin draining northward to the Etowah River.
In addition, Emerson has recently completed constructing a privately funded gravity trunk sewer project (known as the Red Top Sewer), with three sewage pumping stations and force mains to convey sewage to the City of Cartersville for treatment. In an intergovernmental agreement, the City of Cartersville has agreed to accept up to 1.1 mgd of sewage at a connection point near Old Mill Road. The system is designed to allow future development and may be upgraded in the future.
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