Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2012
Distribution of total official needs by State
(January 2012 dollars in billions)
Total documented needs = $271.0 Billion
Range	I I ~~ ~~	I I I
>$25B $5-$25B $2.5-$5B $1-$2.5B <$1B Did not participate
West Virginia
The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) is a
comprehensive assessment of needs to meet the water
quality and water-related public health goals of the Clean
Water Act (CWA). States and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) conduct the CWNS every four
years under CWA Section 516 (b).
Visit www.epa.gov/CWNS for more information.
Sewer
Category
Percent
Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Conveyance System Repair
IV New Conveyance Systems
documented needs by category
dollars in millions).
Category VI
Stormwater Management
Program
$135M, 4.1%
V Combined Sewer Overflow Correction
VI Stormwater Management Program
X Recycled Water Distribution
100.0%
Category I
Secondary
Wastewater Treatment
$358M,
Category II
Advanced Wastewater
Treatment
6.3%
CWNS 2012 West Virginia
(January 2012
Category III
System Repair
$580M, 17.8%
I Secondary Wastewater Treatment
Category V
Combined
Overflow Correction
$1,427M, 43.8%
Category IV
New Conveyance
Systems
$552M, 16.9%
Improvements in treatment level of West Virginia's publicly-owned wastewater treatment plants.

Population served in millions (number of facilities)

Projected
Level of treatment
2004
2008
2012

2032
from 2008-2012
from 2012-2032
Less than Secondary3
<0.1(2)
-(0)
-(0)
-(0)
-
-
Secondary
0.6(143)
0.6 (190)
0.6 (196)
0.6 (183)
1.9%
-7.0%
Greater than Secondary
0.4 (64)
0.5 (65)
0.5 (69)
0.7 (92)
5.3%
42.3%
No Discharge
<0.1(2)
<0.1 (2)
<0.1 (1)
<0.1 (1)
4900.0%
-86.4%
Partial Treatment
-(5)
-(0)
-(0)
-(0)
-
-
Total
1 (216)
1.1 (257)
1.1 (266)
1.3 (276)
3.6%
14.6%
a Includes facilities granted section 301(h) waivers from secondary treatment for discharges to marine waters. As of January 1, 2012 waivers for 36 facilities in the CWNS 2012 database had been
granted or were pending.
Total West
Virginia needs
for the 2004-2012
CWNS by category
(January 2012
dollars in millions).
2004
~	2008
~	2012
Needs Category

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