Serving Our Community

The City of Russellville has been served by a community sanitary sewer system since approximately 1912. The sewers originally discharged to nearby creeks, but as the City grew, the individual sewer lines were connected together to form a collection system. The sewers were maintained by the street department or other maintenance functions of the general City government until 1985, when City Corporation, the commission established by the City to operate the municipal water system, assumed responsibility for the sewer collection system, lift stations and treatment plant. Today, there are over 221 miles of sewer line connected to 19 lift stations across the City that convey wastewater to the Pollution Control Works facility. The PCW provides wastewater treatment for Russellville’s 30,000 residents, local industry and the city of Dover.