Jones Ferry CSO
Treatment Facility
49 Ferry Rd.
Chicopee, MA

Chicopee, Ma. On September 28, 2009
Photo Gallery of the Facility

Chicopee, Ma. On September 28, 2009 a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Jones Ferry CSO Treatment Facility took place at the facility site at 49 Ferry Road in Chicopee.

The Chicopee River Watershed was invited Chairman George Moreau, Rick Dunderdale and Ralph Shrewsbury attended.

The City of Chicopee's sewerage collection system is estimated to be 200 miles in total pipe length, of witch over half is combined stormwater and sanitary sewage pipe. Because the interceptor sewers and the Water Pollution Facility were originally designed to handle dry weather flows only, a portion of the combined flow is discharged into the Connecticut and Chicopee River through the City's permitted sewer overflows (CSOs) during wet weather.

There are 29 permitted CSOs witch remain active in the city.The City is currently under a Consent Decree issued jointly by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), requiring abatement of the city's CSOs,including completion of the Jones Ferry CSO Treatment facility.

The Jones Ferry CSO is the largest combined sewer outfall in the City of Chicopee. Prior to construction of CSO facility. The Jones Ferry CSO contributed approximately 40% of untreated combined sewer discharged from the City.

The Jones Ferry CSOTreatment Facility was designed to screen and disinfect 143 million gallons annually of combined flow that formally discharged directly to the Connecticut River when the capacity of the sewer system was exceeded.The project cost $14,8000.000.

This will now enable the city of Chicopee to screen and disinfect 28,000 gallons of raw sewage and storm water per minute.

Construction begin in May 2007 and completed in September 2009.