• Water: treats the City’s drinking water. Manages the water transmission and distribution piping system.

• Stormwater: maintains the City's levee and stormwater systems. Manages rainwater and snowmelt to improve water quality and minimize flooding.

• Wastewater: manages the wastewater collection system. Treats the City’s wastewater.

Drinking water and wastewater services are funded entirely by user fees charged to customers based upon their use of the product or services. No general tax fund revenues are used. Stormwater services are funded by user fees and stormwater capital projects are partially funded by the Public Improvement Advisory Committee sales tax.

Arrowhead Transmission Main - Phase 2 Bond Project
The City of Kansas City Water Services Department is beginning another voter approved bond project, Arrowhead Transmission Main - Phase 2. This project includes the installation of a 54-inch water transmission main along North Oak Trafficway from Kansas City’s water treatment plant at 9 Highway and North Oak Trafficway to Northeast Vivion Road. The new transmission main will increase capacity for the Northland to accommodate growth and improve system reliability.

Funding for the project has now been identified, design is near completion, and a construction schedule is being developed. Construction is expected to begin in August 2009 and will continue for approximately 15 months. Intermittent, partial road closures on North Oak Trafficway are expected during the construction period.

Kansas City Submits Overflow Control Plan
On Jan. 30, 2009, the City of Kansas City, Mo., submitted the Overflow Control Plan as scheduled. The Water Services Department’s Overflow Control Plan is required by state and federal agencies and details the City’s commitment to decrease the frequency and volume of overflows from its combined and separate sanitary sewer systems. The plan is the largest infrastructure investment in Kansas City’s history with an estimated cost of $2.4 billion (2008 dollars) and will take more than 25 years to complete.

You may view an overview of the Plan by clicking here or the entire Plan (approx. 350 pages) by clicking here.

"The Wave" -- the new Automatic Meter Reading system
The Water Services Department is implementing an automatic meter reading program, "the WAVE," with installation beginning in spring 2007 and ending in 2010. Using wireless radio transmitters, "the WAVE" remotely reads customer meters, and then transfers the data into the billing system. "The WAVE" will virtually eliminate estimated bills.

For Water Services Department questions, call the 3-1-1 Action Center at 311 or (816) 513-1313.