Metro offers fixed route, express/commuter, circulator and origin-to-destination paratransit bus services throughout the Omaha metro, serving a territory of approximately 100 square miles with a fleet of over 115 vehicles including buses, paratransit vehicles and utility vehicles. Metro’s Headquarters contain offices, a bus depot, and two-bay bus wash. The bus wash system is located on the lower level, near the southeast corner of the building. It contains two bays, each equipped with a series of trench drains running along the center of each bay, which feed into a gray water reclamation tank located in the adjacent pump room below grade. Sediment settles to the bottom of the water reclamation tank between washes. Water stored in the tank is entirely reused for bus washing, and a such, the water supply and drainage system is closed loop. Periodically, water must be pumped from the reclamation tank to a nearby drain which feeds into the city sanitary main so that the tank can be cleaned of sediment. Gray water from the reclamation tank is deposited into a storage tank before being mixed with soap and pumped to the spray nozzles, with one 200-gpm pump serving each bay.
