The Macon Water Authority
790 Second Street • Macon, GA 31202-0108 • (478) 464-5600
News
The Value of Macon Water Evident in Rates

The Macon Water Authority (MWA) Board of Directors, following extensive financial analysis, has passed a resolution to adopt new water and sewer rates and related fees for the 2012 calendar year. The new MWA rates/fee schedule will feature a small percentage increase to customer water and sewer v...
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MWA recognized with industry awards at GAWP Fall Conference

The Macon Water Authority’s (MWA) most recent industry report card is in, and the utility brought home all A’s during the Fall Conference of the Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP), held Nov. 14-16, in Athens. The MWA received a 2011 Gold Award for its Wastewater Collection Syst...
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MWA Water Efficiency Program coming to fruition

Beginning in August, the Macon Water Authority (MWA) commissioned Cavanaugh & Associates to conduct a “Top Down†Water Audit of its system, under IWA/AWWA industry standards, with the intent to develop a subsequent Water Efficiency Program as a result. The MWA and staff from Cavanaugh &a...
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Despite drought and climate change, MWA drinking water supply secure

With a severe drought and some of the hottest days and months on record in Georgia this past spring and summer, one would think the Macon Water Authority (MWA) struggled to maintain adequate reservoir storage and drinking water supply. However, that was the furthest from the truth, says MWA Exec...
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MWA pump station receiving an upgrade to increase capacity, efficiency

The Macon Water Authority (MWA) is installing a new pumping station and force main upgrade at its existing Allen Road I pump station site, located just northeast of the entrance to the Sofkee Industrial Park on Highway 247. The current construction project – titled the “Allen Road II Lift St...
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