The Sewer Service Area (
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The Pierce County Council established a Failed Septic System Connection Fund in 2007 using 14% of the rate increase proposed by the Utility that year. The fund was created to increase sewer connections within the service area basin and specifically to assist in connecting individual single family residential properties for connection to the Pierce County Sewer System with septic systems that had failed.
Through Pierce County Council Ordinance 2010-56, the County Council directed the Utility to broaden the scope of the original Fund to include the promotion of economic development.
To meet these directives, the Sewer Division started the Sewer Connection Program. The program collects a minimum of $250,000 annually used for a variety of public and private projects. Program recipients are chosen using a value rating system acknowledging everything from acres served, to jobs created, to health and safety improvements.
Please note: Application information and information on funding awards will be available in 2023.
