Faced with population growth, limited infrastructure, decreasing water supplies and environmentally sensitive coastal waters, Onslow County, N.C., is taking a centralized approach to wastewater management in the Stump Sound service area.
The Onslow Water & Sewer Authority (ONWASA) is acquiring existing localized facilities and acreage, developing a regional reclaimed water facility, and enhancing current facilities.
The approach will ultimately make life easier for ONWASA operators by eliminating the need for new on-site package treatment plants to serve individual developments. It will also improve effluent quality from existing plants.
A water reclamation system scheduled for start-up this year will treat wastewater from the Holly
