Budget Message / Highlights - Metropolitan Water Reclamation ...

METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
2009 BUDGET
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS
2009 BUDGET NARRATIVE
The mission of the Maintenance & Operations
Department (M&O) is to protect our water environment
by collecting and treating wastewater and by maintaining
our waterways free of pollution in the most economical
and environmentally sustainable manner possible.
Personnel
$89,825,000 40.6%
By Major Line Item
Natural Gas
$3,015,000 1.4%
M&O consists of four Divisions, three of which are Field
Divisions that maintain and operate the collection systems
and treatment plants within the District’s 883.5 square
miles service area, and a General Division that provides
administrative support in terms of regulatory, financial,
budgetary, procurement and personnel issues, as well as
maintenance and operations of the waterways, the
Lockport Powerhouse and oversight of solids operations.
M&O Budget = $ 221,406,300
Electricity
$39,968,300 18.1%
Solids Contracts
$20,478,000 9.2%
While each Division has provided a separate narrative
highlighting individual areas of responsibilities,
challenges and accomplishments, M&O as a whole is
responsible for:
Collecting wastewater discharges annually from a
population equivalent of 10.35 million people
(domestic and industrial discharge) by maintaining
and operating:
• A complex 554 mile network of intercepting sewers
with approximately 430 connections and 23 remote
pumping stations;
• 109.4 miles of TARP tunnels with approximately 150
controlled connections.
Treating approximately 518.8 billion gallons of
wastewater annually by maintaining and operating:
• Seven wastewater treatment plants.
Minimizing local area flooding by maintaining and
operating:
• 76 miles of navigable waterways & the Lockport
Powerhouse;
• 125 miles of small streams & 35 retention reservoirs.
Further improving quality of water in area waterways
by maintaining and operating:
• 5 Side Stream Elevated Pool Aerations Stations
(SEPA);
• 2 Instream Aeration Stations (IAS).
Processing and beneficial reuse of Biosolids, the
byproduct of wastewater treatment by maintaining
and operating:
• 3 biosolids handling facilities.
1,200
1,000
Other
$60,705,100
Calumet
Service Area
238
800
600
400
27.4%
Chemicals
$7,414,900 3.3%
2009 Personnel Distribution
Stickney
Service Area
470
Positions = 1,082*
*Includes 36 positions funded by Stormwat er M anagement Fund
Total Positions & Positions to be
Dropped in the Future
General
Division
92
1,0 4 6 1,0 17 1,036 1,0 54 1,0 55
North Service
Area
282
1,071 1,080 1,080 1,080 1,082
25 63 44 26
27
*
M&O’s commitment to providing the most effective
conventional wastewater treatment to obtain the highest
quality effluent is reflected in achieving a 99.9 percent
overall compliance rate with the requirements of the
200
0
Positions Budgeted Future Drops
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
*Includes 36 positions f unded by St ormwater M anagement Fund
239
239