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 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1
>$25B $5-$25B $2.5-$5B $1-$2.5B <$1B Did not participate
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.
.$1,0241V!
Category
Percent
V Combined Sewer Overflow Correction
Vi Stormwater Management Program
Category!
Secondary
WastewaterTreatment
15.7%
Category IV
New Conveyance
Systems
$1,176IV!, 18.0%
Category X
Recycled Water Distribution
$26M, <1%
Category VI
Storinwater Management
Program
$80IV!, 1.2%
Category V
Combined Sewer
Overflow
Correction
$695M, 10.6%
IV New Conveyance Systems
X Recycled Water Distribution
Category III
Conveyance System Repair
$1,8981V!, 29.1%
CWNS 2012 Virginia documented needs by category
(January 2012 dollars in millions).
Category II
Advanced
Wastewater
Treatment
$1,628M, 24.9%
I Secondary Wastewater Treatment
Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Conveyance System Repair
Improvements in treatment level of Virginia's publicly-owned wastewater treatment plants.

Population served in millions (number of facilities)
Population change
from 2008-2012
Projected
population change
front 2012-2032
Level of treatment
2004
2008
2012

2032
Lessthan Secondary3
-(0)
-(0)
-(0)
-(0)
-
-
Secondary
2.4(154)
1.8(152)
1.6(144)
1.8(118)
-8.9%
11.7%
Greater than Secondary
2.5 (63)
3.6(72)
3.8 (86)
6(113)
5.8%
55.0%
No Discharge
<0.1(1)
<0.1 (1)
<0.1 (1)
<0.1 (3)
0.0%
170.4%
Partiai Treatment
-(7)
-(3)
-d)
-(0)
-
-
Total
4.9 (225)
5.4 (228)
5.4 (232)
7.8 (234)
1.0%
42.3%
! 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 Virginia
needs for the
2004-2012 CWNS
by category
(January 2012
dollars in millions).
O
O
2004
~ 2008
~ 2012
Needs Category

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