Ray Pedrick Water / Sewer Superintendent

The water / sewer department is currently staffed by three full time personnel. Personnel of the City of Emerson water / sewer department work hard every day to provide the residents of Emerson the highest quality water while effectively managing and this priceless resource.

Water Supply

The City of Emersons primary source of water is from Moss Spring. Moss Spring is located 1.7 miles southwest of Emerson near Old Alabama Road. Water from Emersons spring is treated by fluorination and chlorination at the spring pump house located adjacent to the spring. The spring was developed in 1978 and is currently permitted by the Georgia EPD for withdrawal of .625 million gallons per day, not to exceed an average of .5 million gallons per day (mgd). Emerson owns a smaller spring in the vicinity of Moss Spring. To date Spring #2 is undeveloped but remains an option for increased water supply to residents of the City of Emerson. Areas outside of the current supply infrastructure of Moss Spring are furnished water through a purchase water system from Bartow County. This is made possible through an inter- governmental agreement between Bartow County and the City of Emerson.

Wastewater Treatment

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. It replaced a facility that had been in use since 1971. The new facility is designed to treat .5 mgd average monthly discharge and .215 average weekly discharges. It operates under NPDES b.2 limits of .45 mgd average monthly and .56 mgd as a weekly maximum.

The Emerson sewage collection system serves most of the developed areas within the original city limits and is describe 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 Project), with three sewage pumping stations and force mains to convey sewage to the City of Cartersville for treatment and disposal. 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 project is designed to allow development and may be upgraded in the future.