Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Water and Wastewater systems presently serves an aggregate of approximately 56,700 water and 43,000 wastewater customers. The County is located along the North Carolina/South Carolina state line southeast of the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Water and wastewater service needs are increasing in the County, in large part due to its proximity to the City of Charlotte. Continued growth drives the need to analyze, plan, design and construct improvements to the water distribution, booster pumping, and storage facilities as well as the wastewater collection, pumping, and conveyance systems. The 2016 Master Plan and current CIP identify projects within the water distribution and wastewater collection systems that must be implemented to meet present and future demands. The County’s water distribution system provides service to a significant portion of the County, including all major urbanized areas with the exception of the City of Monroe. Water service is provided to the communities of Indian Trail, Stallings, Waxhaw, Wingate, Weddington, Wesley Chapel, Fairview, Hemby Bridge and large areas of low-density land use in unincorporated Union County. The water distribution system includes approximately 5,700 hydrants, 20.5 million gallons (MG) of storage, 6 booster pump stations, and 1,140 miles of piping. Water is supplied to the distribution system by the Catawba River Water Treatment Plant and the Yadkin River Water Treatment Plant. The Catawba River Water Treatment Plant is jointly owned by Union County and Lancaster County Water & Sewer District and has a current treatment capacity of 40 million gallons per day (MGD), with each entity owning 50 percent of the treatment capacity up to a capacity of 100 MGD. The Yadkin River Water Treatment Plant is solely owned by Union County and has a treatment capacity of 12 MGD.
