The Utilities Board of Tuskegee (UBT) provides, in addition to other services, drinking water service to approximately 4,400 residential customers who are located primarily within the corporate limits of Tuskegee and portions of Macon County. Non-residential water customers include Tuskegee University, the Central Alabama Veterans Administration, the Town of Franklin, Town of Notasulga, Star Mindingall Water Authority, and Macon County Water Authority. UBT owns and operates the potable drinking water system which consists of a raw water pumping station, a water treatment plant (WTP), and a water distribution system consisting of approximately 32 miles of cast iron and ductile iron water mains, 25 miles of PVC water mains, one (1) booster pump station, and five (5) elevated water storage tanks. The elevated water storage tanks have a total storage capacity of 2,500,000 million gallons, and overflow elevations to 594 and 595 feet.
The WTP was constructed in the early 1970’s and is located about 9 miles northwest of Tuskegee on County Road 8. The WTP is a conventional surface water treatment plant permitted treatment capacity of four million gallons per day. Treatment processes at the plant include flash mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, dual media filtration, finished water pumping, associated chemical feed systems, and backwash storage and pumping.
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