Clean Water Shreveport is a multi-year program that is the City of Shreveport’s formal effort to comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regulations under the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The program helps protect our community’s environment and improves the water and sewer infrastructure of our city.
Shreveport’s sanitary sewer system consists of 1,100-miles of pipe and 120 pump (lift) stations. This infrastructure conveys untreated sewage through our city to two treatment facilities for processing. Contaminants are removed by the treatment facilities and treated water is discharged into the Red River.
Our sewer system is old and has deteriorated over time. Parts of it are undersized and in poor condition. Some of the pipes leak due to corrosion from sewer gases, cracking or breaking from shifting soil, or even stress from blockages within the pipe. These issues have caused sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) to occur throughout our city. When this happens, untreated sewage can be released onto the ground or into waterways.
Clean Water Shreveport was able to support Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and raise over our goal of $1,000 to gift a family with three small children and a newborn everything on their Christmas lists this year.
This $36.5 million dollar improvement project will increase water treatment capacity and efficiency to continue to deliver safe drinking water to all in our community.
The Clean Water Shreveport program is the City of Shreveport’s formal effort to address the requirements of a federally mandated Consent Decree that was signed
Shreveport, Louisiana
