CWR Value Proposition - Environmental Community

A Focus on the Environment

The EPA estimates that about 850 billion gallons of untreated wastewater and storm water are released as CSOs each year in the United States and that between 23,000 and 75,000 SSOs occur each year in the United States, resulting in additional releases of between 3 billion and 10 billion gallons of untreated wastewater.

Inefficient collection systems create many problems because they unnecessarily deplete groundwater during dry weather and utilize scarce system capacity during wet weather events, thereby increasing the likelihood of basement and street-level backups as well as CSOs/SSOs.

If rehabilitation can be performed quickly, comprehensively and cost-effectively, it provides many benefits including:

• Compliance with discharge permit regulations

• Reducing/eliminating SSOs

• Reducing/eliminating basement backups

• Improving public health

• Improving groundwater conditions

• Promoting market standard measurement and performance standards

• Promoting sustainable development (in most cases, existing assets should be able to support projected 10-20 year growth)

CWR brings the highest quality products and privately funded solutions to existing stakeholders (municipalities, engineers, environmental groups, elected officials, contractors, etc.) to get the desired results faster...and delivering those results to the community with an intelligent impact on sewer rates.