About the Metropolitan Sewerage District
of Buncombe County, North Carolina
The Metropolitan Sewerage District
(MSD) is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. The District was
created and established in 1962 by the North Carolina State Stream Sanitation Committee
for the purpose of constructing and operating facilities for the treatment and disposal of
the sewage generated by the political subdivisions comprising the District. The MSD is a
public body and body politic and corporate of the State of North Carolina, exercising
public and essential governmental functions and organized under the provisions of the
North Carolina Metropolitan Sewerage Districts Act, being Article 5, Chapter 162A of the
General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended. The District is comprised of the following
political subdivisions located within Buncombe County:
The governing board (District
Board) has a strategic plan for the future of the MSD and the budgetary process
incorporates management by objectives. The District’s management team and employees
carry out the goals and objectives and policies as set by the District Board. The budget
process provides the tool to translate planning objectives into work objectives on an
annual basis.
The District Board consists of
twelve members. Three from the County of Buncombe, three from the City of
Asheville, one from Woodfin Sanitary Water & Sewer District, and one each
from the Towns of Biltmore
Forest, Black Mountain, Montreat, Weaverville and Woodfin.
The District owns, operates and
maintains a 40 million gallon per day (MGD) wastewater treatment plant to treat raw sewage
and industrial wastewaters collected in an extensive network (approximately 750 miles) of
collector sewers currently owned, operated and maintained by the District pursuant to the
consolidation agreements signed on July 2, 1990. The District also owns, operates and
maintains approximately 60 miles of interceptor sewers that connect such sewers to the
treatment plant.
District Map
MSD Recorded Public Service
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