Water & Sewer

IVGID’s Public Works Department includes treatment plant and pipeline teams who provide high-quality drinking water for the community. They are also responsible for processing and removing sewage and wastewater for our community. Click here for Water & Sewer Ordinances.

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District infrastructure assets include:

• A state-of-the-art, dual treatment, drinking water production facility capable of producing 8 million gallons of high-quality drinking water per day
  
• 13 water tanks capable of storing 6 million gallons of water
• Over 132 miles of drinking water and sewer pipelines
• A sanitary sewer system capable of treating over 1 million gallons of wastewater a day
• All wastewater solids and effluent are exported out of the Tahoe Basin for final disposal
  

Water

Our drinking water is some finest in the world! Drink Tahoe Tap!

The Incline Village General Improvement District provides its water customers with a safe, palatable water supply that is very close to its pure, natural state.  The Public Works water treatment plant is one of a handful of surface water, treatment facilities across the nation that is not required to provide filtration for its drinking water.

IVGID has received an exemption of filtration requirement because of the unique characteristics and extremely high quality of our water source, Lake Tahoe. Water is drawn out of Lake Tahoe and treated using a state-of-the-art ozone treatment process followed by an ultra-violet light system. These systems provide disinfection of the drinking water to protect against bacteria, viruses and cysts. Ozone is a powerful disinfectant that does not alter mineral quality and enhances the taste of the water. UV light also imparts no taste to the water.  The District then injects a small dose of chlorine in the drinking water before it goes out to the community to keep it bacteria-free in the pipes.

For more information on protecting your drinking water quality, visit our source water protection webpage.

For questions about your water service, please click here.

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Sewer

Constructed in 1962, the IVGID Wastewater Reclamation Facility (Treatment Plant) receives an average of 1.3 million gallons of wastewater daily.  The collection and export system for wastewater includes: 100 miles of sewer pipelines, 18 pumping stations, a half million-gallon storage tank, and a twenty-mile export pipeline taking treated effluent out of the Tahoe Basin for final disposal  The wastewater treatment plant processes and disinfects wastewater using conventional biological treatment processes and solids handling facilities.

The wastewater treatment process from start to finish takes approximately 15 hours. The solids removed from the process are sent to Bentley Ranch for composting with other organic material. The export pipeline transports the plant’s secondary treated effluent to the IVGID wetlands in Douglas County.

The Wetlands facility was built in 1983 with 87% funding from EPA Grants.  The treated wastewater goes through final treatment by disposal through evaporation, transpiration (evaporation through plants), and percolation (seepage through soil). The water passes through several wetland lagoons on 290 acres of the 770 acre site. The system works in harmony with the existing warm-water wetlands, adapts to year-round fluctuations in weather and temperature, and meets state and EPA water quality requirements while providing unique wetlands habitat. The site includes a natural warm-water wetland and supports over 70 species of birds and mammals.