Water and Sewer Services
The City of Warrenton produce 317,566,020 gallons of water in 2018, an average of 870,043 gallons per day. This is about 41% of the engineer’s defined production capacity of the system. The City maintains 6 deep wells, 6 water storage tanks, and 2 booster stations with a total storage capacity of 2,450,000 gallons of water. Water loss has been reduced from 28% in 2015 to 13% in 2018 through prompt repair of water leaks, replacement of aging infrastructure, and through the City’s Water Meter Replacement Program.
The Water Meter Replacement program has a goal to maintain all meters to be under 15 years of age to ensure proper metering. Old meters are replaced by the City at no cost to the owner. Since 2015, 1486 water meters have been replaced, which is 35.20% of 4,221 water meters monitored each month.
The City sends 9 water samples each month to the DNR Laboratory in Jefferson City for testing. These samples are taken from a sample site plan. The Warrenton Water Department also has a Backflow Prevention ordinance and Wellhead Protection Program in place to help ensure the production of safe and quality water to our customers.