The Town of Discovery Bay Community Services District (“District”) was formed in July 1998, with the latent powers or/responsibility of providing water and wastewater services to the community of Discovery Bay. At that time, there were six (6) water production wells, and one (1) wastewater treatment facility that treated approximately one (1) million gallons of wastewater per day.

Currently the District owns:

• Four (4) water production wells with one (1) additional well that is under construction and to be completed by July of 2010. On a summer day, the District will pump approximately 4 to 5 million gallons of water per day, of which a large portion of that is being used for irrigation.
• Two (2) water treatment facilities with water storage capacity of 2 ½ million gallons of treated water.
• Two (2) wastewater treatment facilities that treat an average of 1.8-million gallons of wastewater per day.
• Fifteen (15) wastewater lift stations that transports/moves the raw wastewater to the main wastewater treatment facility. 
• Sixty (60) miles of water and wastewater mains.
• One (1) State-of-the-Art Bio-Solids System which produces compost that is used in our common landscape areas.

Our water and wastewater facilities are operated and maintained by Veolia Water under a multi-year contract.  Also, the District has a partnership with the University of Berkeley on a multi-year “Wetlands” Trial Project to remove pharmaceuticals, salinity (salt), and certain metals from our wastewater.

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Additional Reading:

EPA Encourages Americans to Save Water During Fix a Leak Week

March 15, 2011 - Water & Wastes Digest; Source:  U.S. EPA