WASTEWATER DIVISION OVERVIEW

The Wastewater Division provides sewer service to the residents of Paso Robles, a portion of Templeton Community Services District, and the California Youth Authority Facility; an area of 35 square miles.

The City operates and maintains an extensive system including:

• Over 115 miles of sewer mains
• 14 sewer lift stations (facilities for collecting wastewater flows from a low elevation and pumping them to a higher elevation, allowing wastewater to travel by gravity to the wastewater treatment plant)
• Up to 4.9 million gallons per day treatment plant
• 7,200 residential sewer connections
• 600 commercial/industrial sewer connections
• Over 27,600 customers

Sewer line cleaning is performed on over 200,000 feet of sewer mains (38 miles) each year; video inspection is performed on over 10,000 feet per year.

For information on connection fees, visit the Building Division's Development Fees page. For monthly fees, see the Administrative Services Utilities and Billing page.