Waste Water Division

Recent News

Manchester Treatment Plant wins award
The Washington State Department of Ecology has awarded Manchester Treatment Plant staff the Outstanding Performance Award for a record 16 straight years now. Read the article printed in Treatment Plant Operator here.

Kitsap County completes 20 year Facility Plan

Kitsap County has completed a 20 Year Facility Plan identifying capital projects associated with the future conveyance and treatment of wastewater. Both the executive summary and the full Plan can be accessed below. The full Plan may take several minutes to download. The appendices can be reviewed at the Public Works Annex by calling Kitsap 1 at 360-377-5777, or you can follow the directions below to download them.

Central Kitsap County Wastewater Facility Plan - March 2011 - click here
Executive Summary only - click here

To download the zipped appendices file from our ftp site:
Go to ftp://kcwppub3.co.kitsap.wa.us/pw/ww
On the right side of your browser window under "page" select "Open ftp Site in Windows Explorer"
The file is Facility_Plan_Appendices.zip.
Right click and save to your destination of choice.(The file is 344mb)

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Kitsap County Public Works owns and operates the wastewater treatment plants servicing Central Kitsap, Manchester, Suquamish and Kingston. The collection system includes 128 miles of sewer lines through the utility areas. There are 68 lift stations in the County collecting and pumping the wastewater over hilly terrain to ultimately arrive at one of the treatment plants for processing.

The wastewater treatment facility serving the community of Kingston was completed in May 2005. Kingston Plant Info

Each of the four treatment plants are unique in the way the waste flows into the facilities and is processed. Use the links below for a detailed description  of each facility including a flow diagram:

Central Kitsap Manchester Kingston Suquamish
[ Map of Public Works Waste Treatment Facilities ]

A communications network using radio frequency monitors the activities at each (un-manned) pump and lift station. The wastewater may travel as much as 10 miles to a treatment facility, and each station is mission critical. At each treatment plant, a network of computers are monitoring the processing activities: pumps, presses, UV disinfection, flow levels, well levels, etc. Trouble alarms are transmitted instantly so staff can be dispatched to resolve problems.

Waste water processing is a twenty-four hour operation. There are sixty (60) full-time employees reporting to the Sewer Utility Manager.   Each division has a unique area of responsibility and works together to keep processing facilities flowing, trouble-free:

Randy Casteel, PE
Director of Public Works

Waste Water Division
(360) 337-5777 or (800) 825-4940
Kitsap1@co.kitsap.wa.us