Major Wastewater Treatment Facilities

In addition to the Morris Forman Wastewater Treatment Plant, MSD operates these major wastewater treatment plants:

• Built in 1995, the Cedar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is located along Cedar Creek south of the Snyder Freeway near Fern Creek. The plant treats an average of 2.5 million gallons of wastewater a day. Plans call for increasing the plant's capacity to 7.5 million gallons of wastewater a day, with construction set to begin in 2000. In May 2000, the Cedar Creek plant received a Platinum Award from the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, recognizing the plant's five consecutive years of full compliance with its NPDES permit.
• The Hite Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in 1970, with a capacity to treat 4.4 million gallons of wastewater a day. The plant is located on Hitt Lane near I-71 and the Jefferson-Oldham county line, and has about 2 million gallons of daily treatment capacity available.
• MSD purchased the Jeffersontown Wastewater Treatment Plant in 1990. Located on Ruckriegel Parkway in Jeffersontown along Chenoweth Run creek, the plant can treat up to 4 million gallons of wastewater a day. In 1998 the plant received a Platinum Award from the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage agencies, recognizing its five consecutive years of full compliance with its NPDES permit.
• The West County Wastewater Treatment Plant, located on Lower River Road south of Moorman Road, has been in service since 1986. Designed to treat 15 million gallons of wastewater a day, the plant is scheduled to be expanded to 23 million gallons of wastewater a day capacity by 2001.
• The Floyds Fork Wastewater Treatment Plant is located off U.S. 60 on Floyds Fork Creek. The plant is near Midland Trail Golf Course. At a cost of more than $15 million to build, the plant has a 3.25 million gallons per day wastewater treatment capacity and ncludes an environmental education center being developed by Jefferson County Public Schools with MSD.

MSD also operates 38 small treatment plants and 12 major pump stations, maintains more than 3,000 miles of sewer lines, and monitors water quality in more than 790 miles of streams in a 390-square-mile service area.

Click here for a map of MSD's major wastewater treatment plants.