
Situated twenty miles southwest of Denver, the Parker Water and Sanitation District serves more than 22,000 Colorado residents. The District’s mission is to deliver clean, high quality water to its customers, and then manage, operate and maintain the 150 mile long sewage collections system that safely transports it all back from their homes and businesses to wastewater treatment plants. The facility includes two activated sludge wastewater treatment plants that can treat up to 3.5 million gallons per day. As most facility managers can attest, Mother Nature doesn’t always adhere to those same objectives. Parker’s administrative office and largest treatment facility, as well as a variety of outlying buildings, holding ponds, aeration tanks, wells and pumping stations lie within an area that is dominated by large cottonwood trees. Keep Reading >