Stormwater Utility

The City of Butler owns and operates a system of combined and separate sanitary sewers for the collection and transportation of wastewater and stormwater runoff to a treatment plant owned and operated by the City.  Sewers date to the early 1900s and the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) dates to the mid-1930s.

Butler’s wastewater system consists of approximately eighteen (18) miles of separate sanitary and combined sewers, with seven (7) lift stations, serving approximately 950 customers and a population of 2,700 people; and a wastewater treatment plant that provides secondary treatment with single stage nitrification (since 1996)  before the effluent is chlorinated / dechlorinated and discharged to the Big Run Ditch.

Combined sewers in the Butler wastewater collection system were designed to convey wastewater and storm water through a single pipe to the wastewater treatment plant. The combination of wastewater and stormwater runoff from the combined sewer service areas may overflow and discharge, by design, at a permitted combined sewer overflow (per an NPDES Permit) during stormwater conditions.

Storm services are billed quarterly, every landowner in the city limits receives a storm bill.  The charge is based on Equivalent Runoff Units (ERU's). An ERU is equal to 2500 square feet. All single family residential properties are charged 1 ERU per month. All other properties are assigned ERU's based on the total area of impervious surface, as determined by the city. The current rate is $5.00 per ERU per month. Any questions about your storm bill please call the utility office (260) 868-5881.