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System Overview

  • Customers Served: 144,000 water and 30,000 wastewater customers in 80 communities in Luzerne, Lackawanna and Susquehanna Counties.
  • Treatment Facilities: 9 water treatment plants, 14 well systems and one wastewater plant
  • Tanks: 68
  • Miles of Pipe: 1,900 waterline; 330 collection system
  • Employees: 330
  • Partnership for Safe Water Awards: 9

Scranton Wastewater System

In December 2016, Pennsylvania American Water acquired the wastewater system assets of Scranton Sewer Authority (SSA) – a combined sewer system that provides wastewater service to approximately 30,000 customers in Scranton and Dunmore. Click here to learn more about the investments made in the collection and treatment systems.

Lake Scranton

Over the past few years, we’ve invested more than $59 million at our Lake Scranton Water Treatment Plant to continue providing high quality, reliable service. Click here to learn more about some of the improvements.

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Invested $10.1 million to install labyrinth spillway

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Completed redundant transmission line and tunnel through East Mountain at a cost of $22.7 million

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Constructed new 3.5-million gallon storage tank at a cost of $7 million

2025 Investments

2024 Investments

2023 Investments