This is an aerial picture of the impounding dam taken in 1993.  This  property belongs to the Hamburg Municipal Authority.  This dam holds 34,000,000 gallons of mountain spring water along with a 1,750,000 gallons finished water reservoir.  There are four wells to be used during emergencies as a backup supply.

This is a picture of the Hamburg Water Filtration Plant. This plant was built in 1996. This property also belongs to the Hamburg Municipal Authority.

This is a picture of the Hamburg Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The original plant was built in 1962 and updated to secondary treatment in 1974. There was an expansion in 1994 to include aerobic digestion.

UPGRADE AND EXPANSION

The wastewater treatment plant started an upgrade and expansion in April of 2005. The project consisted of a change of process as well as added capacity from one million gallons per day to one and a half million gallons per day. The construction included an oxidation ditch, two new final clarifiers, a new sludge pumping building, sludge thickening building, a chlorination/dechlorination building as well as a control system referred to as SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and an upgrade to the Pine Street Pumping Station. There was also an update of the control building adding storage and locker facilities and demolition of the anaerobic digesters and primary clarifiers.

The Pine Street Pumping Station upgrade included new raw sewage pumps a new generator and grit removal equipment. This has increased peak capacity to five million gallons per day. The station went on line in September of 2006.

The oxidation ditch is made of prefabricated concrete panels and was assembled in the summer of 2006, going on line in January of 2007. The clarifiers are also prefabricated panels and went on line at the same time.

Also included in the project was the conversion of the existing final clarifiers to chlorine contact tanks and adding aeration and dechlorination in the former chlorine contact tank.

This expansion will allow for additional flows from Tilden Township and any further development in the Borough and Windsor Township.

Effluent from the plant has been very good and should be able to meet all permit requirement s for a long time to come.