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A variety of publications are created through the DWSD Wholesale Customer Outreach effort to keep customers abreast of issues impacting our water and sewer systems. Operation Clean Water features an in-depth article each quarter on how DWSD and its suburban wholesale customers manage our water and sewer infrastructure to protect public health and the environment. Most of these documents were created by the Public Education Work Group who strongly encourages reuse of these materials in other publications to provide accurate information to the public.
 
Recent publications
  
Our Aging Infrastructure, Part 1: The Big Picture on Infrastructure Renewal…DWSD and Metropolitan Detroit communities share nation-wide challenges to renew our water and sewer infrastructure.  
   
2012 RTB Performance Annual Report…Compared to the wettest year on record in 2011, RTBs operated on 50 fewer days in 2012, preventing 4.74 billion gallons of combined sewer overflows and demonstrating how RTBs must respond to dramatically different wet weather conditions.  
   
More Faces of Water…Retention Treatment Basin (RTB) operators maintain and operate treatment facilities that prevent combined sewer overflows to protect public health and our waterways.  
   
DWSD’s Ninth CSO Treatment Facility Begins Operation…The Oakwood Pumping Station and CSO Treatment Facility stands ready to capture and treat wet weather flows to meet permit requirements with the latest technology.  
   


 
People who manage and operate our water and sewer systems  
 
 
 
   
How does wet weather impact our sewer system and the environment?  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
What impacts water and sewer rates?  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
News about DWSD and wholesale customers