Huntington Sanitary Board

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The Huntington Sanitary Board wishes you a safe and happy Labor Day wekend. Our administrative office, located at 555 7t...
09/06/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board wishes you a safe and happy Labor Day wekend. Our administrative office, located at 555 7th Avenue, will be closed Monday, September 7, in observance of the holiday. If you experience a sewer-related emergency, please call 304-696-4437.

The Huntington Sanitary Board and Sweeping Corporation of America will continue the 2026 citywide street sweeping season...
09/04/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board and Sweeping Corporation of America will continue the 2026 citywide street sweeping season Tuesday, September 8, as part of an effort to minimize the impact of storm water on Huntington’s roadways and prevent pollution from entering the city’s sewer collection system.

It is important to note that this is not a beautification effort but rather a critical action to keep debris from entering the sewer collection system and treatment plant.

Residents are asked to keep an eye out for signage to give them advanced notice. Every Friday, large, yellow signs will be placed along street sweeping routes for the following week to inform residents that street sweeping is scheduled to occur in their area and to watch for “No Parking” signs.

The day before street sweeping occurs in a particular area, the large, yellow signs will be replaced with white “No Parking, Street Sweeping” signs that remind residents to remove their vehicles from the roadway during scheduled street sweeping hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Huntington Police Department will patrol and issue citations to vehicles parked in the sweeping zone during the scheduled hours.

Only curbed streets will be swept, and residents are prohibited from placing grass clippings, leaves and tree limbs in the street. Street sweepers will not remove these items.

The schedule for the weeks of September 7 and September 14 are as follows:

-- September 7: No Sweeping (Labor Day)
-- September 8 and 9: Section 1 (Guyandotte)
-- September 10 and 11: Section 2 (Altizer Park, Altizer)

-- September 14 and 15: Section 3 (Walnut Hills, Stamford Park, Beverly Hills)
-- September 16 and 17: Section 4 (Highlawn)
-- September 18: Section 5 (Highlawn)

The schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions. In the event of weather affecting the schedule, operations will be pushed back accordingly to the day or days affected.

1st Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue is open to traffic. Our crew members made a catch-basin repair at 1st Stree...
09/02/2026

1st Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue is open to traffic. Our crew members made a catch-basin repair at 1st Street and 5th Avenue earlier today.

09/02/2026

Personnel with Spartan Construction have made significant progress this week cleaning out a stormwater line on Arlington Boulevard.

The goal of the project is to rehabilitate and stabilize the 24-inch pipe, some sections of which are rusted out. The pipe runs underneath approximately 20 homes and has caused sinkholes to form in people’s yards.

In this video below, crew members lift a large log out of the pipe. It had become wedged in the pipe, causing a large backup of debris behind it. Crews also have found grocery carts, empty b**r kegs, tires and other large pieces of debris in the stormwater system in this area.

Work continues on upgrades to our wastewater treatment plant in Westmoreland.In the first photo below, construction crew...
09/02/2026

Work continues on upgrades to our wastewater treatment plant in Westmoreland.

In the first photo below, construction crews are preparing our former lagoon area for four new secondary clarifiers. As wastewater leaves the aeration basin, flock is formed. That flock will settle in the bottom of these clarifiers so that clean water rises to the top. The clean water will then exit the secondary clarifiers and go to our new ultraviolet disinfection system before the water is discharged into the Ohio River.

The ultraviolet disinfection system will kill any f***l coliform and E. coli bacteria in the water. It also will allow us to do away with our current chlorine disinfection system, making the treatment plant a much safer environment for our employees and the surrounding neighborhood.

In the second photo below, you see that construction crews have deconstructed chlorine contact tanks.

In the last photo of the large room inside the plant, dissolved air flotation tanks have been removed, and the walls will be smoothed out and the floor will be filled in. This room will be the future site for treated water for hosing and our return activated sludge pumps.

All of this work is among the first steps of a $196 million treatment plant renovation project, which will occur over the next six years. It will improve safety conditions for our employees; support economic development growth in Huntington and the surrounding region; allow the Sanitary Board to meet state and federal environmental guidelines; and make the wastewater treatment process more efficient, ultimately saving rate payers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

The Huntington Stormwater Utility and Huntington Sanitary Board completed a floodwall-gate exercise on Altizer Avenue th...
09/01/2026

The Huntington Stormwater Utility and Huntington Sanitary Board completed a floodwall-gate exercise on Altizer Avenue this morning.

These exercises are an important part of the Stormwater Utility’s compliance efforts for floodwall maintenance. A closure exercise is required for each floodwall gate opening every three years by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure the functionality of the gate components during high-water events and to serve as a training tool for employees.

The next floodwall-gate exercise will be Thursday, Sept. 10, on Main Street in Guyandotte.

The Huntington Sanitary Board will close 1st Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue on Wednesday, Sept. 2, for repairs...
08/31/2026

The Huntington Sanitary Board will close 1st Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue on Wednesday, Sept. 2, for repairs to a catch basin.

The road will be closed from 8 a.m. to no later than 3 p.m.

Personnel with Spartan Construction are on Arlington Boulevard again this morning working on the first phase of a stormw...
08/31/2026

Personnel with Spartan Construction are on Arlington Boulevard again this morning working on the first phase of a stormwater line repair project.

The goal of the project is to rehabilitate and stabilize a 24-inch rusted-out, metal corrugated pipe. The rusted pipe runs underneath approximately 20 homes and has caused sinkholes to form in people’s yards.

Crew members have found large pieces of debris in the pipe and have discovered some sections where the bottom of the pipe is completely rusted out.

The Huntington Stormwater Utility, in conjunction with the Huntington Sanitary Board, will conduct floodwall-gate exerci...
08/31/2026

The Huntington Stormwater Utility, in conjunction with the Huntington Sanitary Board, will conduct floodwall-gate exercises beginning Sept. 1, 2026.

The exercises are an important part of the Stormwater Utility’s compliance efforts for floodwall maintenance. A closure exercise is required for each floodwall gate opening every three years by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure the functionality of the gate components during high-water events and to serve as a training tool for employees.

All of the floodwall-gate exercises will begin at 7 a.m. and end by 5 p.m. on their scheduled day. The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, Sept. 1: Altizer Avenue

Thursday, Sept. 10: Main Street (Guyandotte)

Thursday, Oct. 1: Steel of West Virginia (area located east of Hal Greer Boulevard)

Motorists are advised to avoid using Altizer Avenue and Main Street on their scheduled exercise dates. The Steel of West Virginia gate-closure exercise on Oct. 1 will not impede traffic or require the closure of any public roads.

Meet Trent Vinson. Trent oversees perhaps the most vital piece of infrastructure in Huntington - our floodwall and levee...
08/28/2026

Meet Trent Vinson. Trent oversees perhaps the most vital piece of infrastructure in Huntington - our floodwall and levee system.

During the Huntington Water Quality Board meeting this past week, Trent, who is floodwall manager for the Huntington Stormwater Utility, reported to board members that he and his team recently started and tested all 17 flood pump stations in the city and made repairs as needed. Trent and his team also will begin their annual round of floodwall gate-closure exercises next week.

These are critical exercises to ensure that an aging floodwall and levee system continues to protect our community from catastrophic flooding when the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers reach flood stage. But now that the floodwall and levee system is more than 85 years old and still relies on early 1940s technology, keeping it operating is a monumental task.

The floodwall and levee system consists of 7 miles of concrete floodwall, 4.5 miles of earthen levee and 17 flood pump stations. It protects approximately $3 billion of property in our community and saves residents and businesses $72 to $79 million in flood insurance costs annually.

While Trent and all of our Stormwater Utility employees have done a remarkable job keeping this system operating by stretching every dollar and squeezing every bit of life out of equipment that should have been replaced decades ago, their efforts only buy time. They won't prevent failure if significant investments are not made into our floodwall and levee system in the near future.

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Huntington, WV
25701

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