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Town of Waynesville
• Customers: 6,345
• Miles of line: 143
• Daily volume: 3.4 million gallons with a peak of 4.5 million gallons in summer
• Maximum capacity of water plant: 8 million gallons/day
• Storage capacity: 6 million gallons of treated water and 450 million gallons of raw water
• Where the water comes from: 8,000-acre preserved watershed at the head of Allens Creek feeds a 55-acre dammed lake
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• Turf: All of Waynesville and many areas surrounding town limits
Maggie Valley Sanitary District
• Customers: 3,800
• Miles of line: 106
• Daily volume: 1.05 million gallons with a peak of 1.5 million gallons in summer and fall
• Maximum capacity of water plant: 3 million gallons/day
• Storage capacity: 1.560 million gallons of treated water and 0 gallons of raw water
• Where the water comes from: One intake on Jonathan Creek and one intake on Campbell Creek
• Turf: Maggie Valley, Jonathan Creek and parts of Dellwood
Town of Canton
• Customers: 3,800
• Miles of line: 66
• Daily volume: 1.2 million gallons, with a peak of 1.7 million gallons
• Maximum capacity of water plant: 4 million gallons/day. Disclaimer: the plant can’t pull more than 2 million gallons a day from the river due to its intake design, rendering the plant’s overall capacity moot.
• Storage capacity: 3.8 million gallons of treated water and 0 gallons of raw water
• Where the water comes from: Pigeon River, with intake a half-mile upstream from town
• Turf: All of Canton, plus surrounding area, reaching west to Clyde and north of I-40
Junaluska Sanitary District
• Customers: 1,800
• Miles of line: 101
• Daily volume: 330,000 gallons
• Where the water comes from: Buys bulk water at wholesale rates from Waynesville and resells it
• Storage capacity: 1.382 million gallons
• Turf: This stand-alone water-and-sewer utility serves the middle of the county, reaching from Haywood Community College to the I-40 interchange on N.C. 209.
Town of Clyde
• Customers: 1,200
• Miles of line: 23
• Average volume: 220,000 gallons/day
• Where the water comes from: Buys bulk water at wholesale rates from Canton and resells it.
• Storage capacity: 400,000 gallons of treated water
• Turf: Clyde area, and just outside town limits
Lake Junaluska Assembly
• Customers: 894
• Daily volume: 128,043 gallons, with the winter low and summer high fluctuating from 96,000 to 175,000 gallons
• Where the water comes from: Buys bulk water at wholesale rates from Waynesville and resells it
• Turf: Lake Junaluska Conference Center and residential neighborhoods surrounding the lake