Everyone at Utilities - from engineers and administrators, to water and wastewater treatment operators, repair crews, and laboratory staff - knows the importance of a healthy living environment.

Environmental Awards

You can help the environment too.  Each year, Utilities awards customers (Water Stars) for unique ways to conserve water.  Let us know how you are using less water.

Changing your lawn can also help the environment.

Another way you can help is by reducing sewage overflows and spills. Clogged or partially blocked pipes result in wastewater flowing backwards and out of manholes onto our streets and into our waterways.

Kitchen grease and other fats, oils and greases disposed of down drains cause more than 50 percent of all sewage spills. If we all stopped pouring these materials down the drain, we could prevent many sewage overflows and spills that occur every year.

OTHER IMPORTANT LINKS  

• Environmental Management Division
• Environmental Services Facility - a new "green" building that houses Lab Services and Environmental Management staff.
• Biosolids
• Industrial Pretreatment - regulates the materials commercial and industrial users can discharge to the sewer system.
• 2008 Environmental Excellence Awards
• DrinkTap.org - a great source for drinking water information.  Clicking on this link will take you to an independent site not affiliated with the City of Charlotte.