Snapfinger Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility

The Snapfinger Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility is located in southern DeKalb County. The facility became operational in 1963, and the original two million gallons per day (MGD) wastewater treatment plant was the second DeKalb County owned and operated wastewater treatment facility.

The present Snapfinger Creek Facility was completed in 1983 and meets the requirements of the Clean Water Act. The facility is designed to use chemical addition to comply with new nutrient permit requirements. The plant is currently designed to treat 36 MGD of flow.

The Snapfinger Creek Facility also monitors, operates, and maintains remote lift stations and metering stations located throughout the DeKalb County sanitary sewer collection system. In addition, the facility is the only authorized septic tank disposal operation in the county.