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Utility
Department
Pinckneyville
Utility Department is responsible for providing municipally owned services
to our community. The department operates and maintains a state of the
art water treatment facility as well as two sanitary sewage treatment
facilities and a natural gas distribution system. The utility
systems are EPA permitted and stay in strict compliance with various
laws and regulations to provide safe and dependable service to the community.
Pinckneyville is fortunate to have substantial excess reserve capacities
in all of our systems for our rapidly growing community.
Water
The City of Pinckneyville owns the city water supply. The
water source is the Pinckneyville
City Lake. The water is treated in the City's state of the art 1.5
million gallon per day water treatment plant. The city has above ground
elevated storage tanks with a total capacity of 1.075 million gallons
with 400,000 in elevated storage serving the business and industrial development
areas. The City currently has five certified water operators on staff.
The water treatment plant is located on Waterworks Road.
Wastewater
Two wastewater treatment plants serve the City. Both of
these plants are activated sludge processes and have excess capacity to
provide service for both residential and business growth.
Gas
The City owned natural gas distribution system is served
by the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America. This is an Interstate
pipeline company. The City of Pinckneyville is a member of the IMGA,
a group of municipal-owned gas distribution systems, which through joint
action work to insure a stable and reliable gas supply to Pinckneyville's
customers. City gas distribution personnel are required to be trained
and certified for their work on the natural gas system.
Inquiries concerning utility service may be made by calling the Utility
Billing office at 618-357-3505 or by visiting the Utility Billing office
at 104 South Walnut Street. Billing office hours are Monday-Friday, 7:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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