Huntington Sanitary Board, 555 7th Avenue, Huntington, WV (2026)

06/13/2026

West Virginia American Water will host an information session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18, at Foundry Theater at Huntington City Hall, to share details about its proposed acquisition of the City of Huntington’s wastewater collection system and agreement to operate the wastewater treatment plant.

The session will include an overview of the proposal, information on the review and approval process and an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

Residents, customers, employees, and other interested stakeholders are encouraged to attend.

WHAT:
Information session to provide an overview and answer community questions regarding a proposed agreement involving the City of Huntington’s wastewater system.

WHO:
West Virginia American Water representatives

WHEN:
Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Foundry Theater, Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Avenue

MORE INFO:
Visit https://amwater.com/wvaw/customer-service-billing/For-New-Customers/city-of-huntington to learn more about the proposed acquisition and submit questions to West Virginia American Water in advance of the information session.

06/12/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board and Sweeping Corporation of America will continue the 2026 citywide street sweeping season Monday, June 15, as part of an effort to minimize the impact of storm water on Huntington’s roadways and prevent pollution from entering the city’s sewer collection system.

It is important to note that this is not a beautification effort but rather a critical action to keep debris from entering the sewer collection system and treatment plant.

Residents are asked to keep an eye out for signage to give them advanced notice. Every Friday, large, yellow signs will be placed along street sweeping routes for the following week to inform residents that street sweeping is scheduled to occur in their area and to watch for “No Parking” signs.

The day before street sweeping occurs in a particular area, the large, yellow signs will be replaced with white “No Parking, Street Sweeping” signs that remind residents to remove their vehicles from the roadway during scheduled street sweeping hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Huntington Police Department will patrol and issue citations to vehicles parked in the sweeping zone during the scheduled hours.

Only curbed streets will be swept, and residents are prohibited from placing grass clippings, leaves and tree limbs in the street. Street sweepers will not remove these items.

The schedule for the weeks of June 15-19 and June 22-26 are as follows:

Monday, June 15: Section 12, Southside; Downtown area
Tuesday, June 16: Section 12, Southside; Downtown area
Wednesday, June 17: Section 13, Southside
Thursday, June 18: Section 13, Southside
Friday, June 19: Section 14, Southside; Harveytown

Monday, June 22: Section 14, Southside; Harveytown
Tuesday, June 23: Section 15, West End
Wednesday, June 24: Section 15, West End
Thursday, June 25: Section 16, West End
Friday, June 26: Section 16, West End

The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions. In the event of weather affecting the schedule, operations will be pushed back accordingly to the day or days affected.

06/08/2026

Guyandotte and Altizer residents are invited to a flood preparedness workshop at 5:30 pm today at the Guyandotte Public Library.

06/03/2026

Construction now is in full swing at our wastewater treatment plant in Westmoreland.

This $196 million renovation project, which will occur over the next six years, will provide numerous benefits. It will improve safety conditions for our employees; support economic development growth in Huntington and the surrounding region; allow the Sanitary Board to meet state and federal environmental guidelines; and make the wastewater treatment process more efficient, ultimately saving rate payers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

The wastewater treatment plant was constructed in 1964, and a secondary treatment process was integrated into the plant in 1986. There have been few upgrades since then.

The plant serves approximately 27,700 metered customers in Huntington and surrounding areas, including customers served by the towns of Ceredo and Kenova and the Northern Wayne, Spring Valley and Pea Ridge public service districts.

More than 325 miles of sewer lines, 47 sewage pump stations and 132 grinder pump stations help send sewage to the treatment plant, which has an average flow of 9 to 12 million gallons on a dry-weather day. It is the largest collection and treatment system in West Virginia.

The treatment plant, however, currently is at 98 percent capacity. On a wet-weather day, the treatment plant can process about 14 to 15 million gallons per day. Anything above that level is not treated to permittable limits and is discharged into the Ohio River, putting the Sanitary Board at risk of being fined by state and federal regulatory agencies.

The expansion project will enable the plant to treat 17 million gallons on a dry day and up to 64 million gallons on a wet-weather day.

In the first photo below, you see the former lagoon area. It will be home to a new solids handling building including centrifuges and a dryer to reduce the amount of sewage sludge that we have to haul to landfills on a daily basis. We also will have four circular secondary clarifiers installed in this area.

The focal point of the second photo is the demolition work of the old final tanks. These have been offline for several years. This area will be the home to our effluent pumping station. This means that the final treated water that is ready to exit the treatment plant and flow through our diffuser pipe back into the Ohio River will be (at times when river level is high) pumped out of the plant.

06/02/2026

Crews with Tribute Construction continue work on the second phase of a project that will mitigate street flooding at key intersections in Highlawn.

The second phase involves the installation of a 24-inch pipe, two pump stations and two large stormwater containment tanks under 4th Avenue between 24th and 25th streets.

Crews have completed the installation of the pump stations and containment tanks (show in the photo below) and will continue installation of the stormwater pipe between Elaine Court and 24th Street beginning tomorrow, June 3. Once that is completed, the stormwater pipe will be installed on 24th Street between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue.

This $12 million project, largely funded with grants, will mitigate street flooding at two intersections - 3rd Avenue and 24th Street and 5th Avenue and 25th Street.

Stormwater runoff from these two low-lying areas will flow to the containment tanks under 4th Avenue and then be pumped to the Ohio River.

The project is expected to be completed sometime during 2027.

05/31/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board and Sweeping Corporation of America will continue the 2026 citywide street sweeping season Monday, June 1, as part of an effort to minimize the impact of storm water on Huntington’s roadways and prevent pollution from entering the city’s sewer collection system.

It is important to note that this is not a beautification effort but rather a critical action to keep debris from entering the sewer collection system and treatment plant.

Residents are asked to keep an eye out for signage to give them advanced notice. Every Friday, large, yellow signs will be placed along street sweeping routes for the following week to inform residents that street sweeping is scheduled to occur in their area and to watch for “No Parking” signs.

The day before street sweeping occurs in a particular area, the large, yellow signs will be replaced with white “No Parking, Street Sweeping” signs that remind residents to remove their vehicles from the roadway during scheduled street sweeping hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Huntington Police Department will patrol and issue citations to vehicles parked in the sweeping zone during the scheduled hours.

Only curbed streets will be swept, and residents are prohibited from placing grass clippings, leaves and tree limbs in the street. Street sweepers will not remove these items.

The schedule for the weeks of June 1-5 and June 8-12 are as follows:

6/1: Section 8 -- Fairfield; Southeast Hills
6/2: Section 8 -- Fairfield; Southeast Hills
6/3: Section 9 -- Areas around Marshall University campus; Fairfield
6/4: Section 9 -- Areas around Marshall University campus; Fairfield
6/5 Section 10 -- Fairfield; Southside; Downtown area

6/8: Section 10 -- Fairfield; Southside; Downtown area
6/9: Section 11 -- Fairfield; Southside; Enslow Park
6/10: Section 11 -- Fairfield; Southside; Enslow Park
6/11: Section 12 -- Southside; Downtown area
6/12: Section 12 -- Southside; Downtown area

The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions. In the event of weather affecting the schedule, operations will be pushed back accordingly to the day or days affected.

05/28/2026

During a recent Water Quality Board meeting, board members approved accepting $7,358,000 in grant funding for a project that will aim to lessen nuisance street flooding and basement backups in residences.

This project will include the installation of valves in combined storm and sanitary sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls that can withstand water pressure from the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers during high-water events. This will keep river water from inundating our sanitary sewer system.

This project will make the collection system more efficient by mitigating some street flooding and basement backups; reducing the number of CSO events that occur upstream in our sewer system by allowing additional storm water storage in our system, which was previously taken up by river water; and by reducing the amount of river water that is pumped and treated at the Huntington Wastewater Treatment Plant.

When Huntington’s combined sanitary sewer and stormwater collection system was originally built in the early 1900s, it included 22 CSO outfalls. These were large pipes that funneled sewage and stormwater directly into the Ohio or Guyandotte rivers.

By the 1960s, the federal government became more focused on improving water quality and implemented numerous regulations for states, counties and cities. As a result, Huntington built its existing wastewater treatment plant in 1964 in Westmoreland.

Around the same time, the Greenup Locks and Dam was constructed. The Locks and Dam raised the normal pool of the Ohio River by 10 feet in the Huntington area. This submerged many of the outfalls along the river and made it easier for Huntington’s collection system to become inundated with river water.

The 22 CSO outfalls remain today, relics of the city’s old collection system. When river water backs up into these outfalls, it causes nuisance street flooding in some areas and basement backups in homes, as well as takes up space to allow storage of localized sanitary and storm water flow that can be pumped and treated at the wastewater treatment plant.

The project could be completed sometime in 2028.

05/25/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board and Sweeping Corporation of America will continue the 2026 citywide street sweeping season Tuesday, May 26, as part of an effort to minimize the impact of storm water on Huntington’s roadways and prevent pollution from entering the city’s sewer collection system.

It is important to note that this is not a beautification effort but rather a critical action to keep debris from entering the sewer collection system and treatment plant.

Residents are asked to keep an eye out for signage to give them advanced notice. Every Friday, large, yellow signs will be placed along street sweeping routes for the following week to inform residents that street sweeping is scheduled to occur in their area and to watch for “No Parking” signs.

The day before street sweeping occurs in a particular area, the large, yellow signs will be replaced with white “No Parking, Street Sweeping” signs that remind residents to remove their vehicles from the roadway during scheduled street sweeping hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Huntington Police Department will patrol and issue citations to vehicles parked in the sweeping zone during the scheduled hours.

Only curbed streets will be swept, and residents are prohibited from placing grass clippings, leaves and tree limbs in the street. Street sweepers will not remove these items.

The schedule for May 26-29 is as follows:

-- Tuesday, May 26: Section 6 (areas near Joan C. Edwards Stadium; Fairfield)

-- Wednesday, May 27: Section 6 (areas near Joan C. Edwards Stadium; Fairfield)

-- Thursday, May 28: Section 7 (Beverly Hills; Forest Hills)

-- Friday, May 29: Section 7 (Beverly Hills; Forest Hills)

The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions. In the event of weather affecting the schedule, operations will be pushed back accordingly to the day or days affected.

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