The Water Production Division provides clean, safe drinking water for approximately 750,000 Gwinnett County residents. During the year 2006, these customers used an average of 87.4 million gallons of water per day.
Gwinnett County's source of water is Lake Lanier, a manmade lake created by Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River. To access this raw water, the Division operates and maintains two separate intake and pump facilities at the Lake. The raw water is then processed at one of the County's two water filter plants. The Lanier Filter Plant (built in 1977and upgraded in 1986 and 1998), can process 150 mgd (million gallons per day) and the Shoal Creek Filter Plant (built in 2004), can process 75 mgd, for a combined total of 225 mgd of water production capacity at the two facilities.
At the end of 2006, the year-end total for water production at the Lanier and Shoal Creek Plants was measured at almost 32 billion gallons. Based on current growth projections, the County anticipates expanding the Shoal Creek production capacity by an additional 75 mgd after 2015. The County will then have a total production capacity of 300 mgd.
The Water Production Division operates and maintains additional water production infrastructure, including 13 water storage tanks and 19 booster pump stations located throughout the County. State certified water production staff provides continuous monitoring and quality control of the water production infrastructure and equipment.
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