City of Ripley Utility Board Mayor Carolyn Rader, Chairwoman Allen Ferrell Douglas Skeen Rick Buckley Lynn McCauley Chris Pecka, Secretary
The City of Ripley owns and operates a public wastewater collection and treatment system in the city limits and at Evans. Both systems are under the direction of the City of Ripley Utility Board. The Ripley system serves approximately 1600 users. The Evans system serves 525 wastewater customers and was originally constructed in 1969. The Ripley system was first constructed in the 1920's to serve both business and residential areas and to discharge into Mill Creek.In 1960 a major improvement was undertaken to eliminate direct discharges into Mill Creek. This consisted of constructing 2 sewer lagoons and 5 pumping stations. In the late 1980's further upgrades were made lagoon to both the treatment facility and the collection system. Since that time, the City has aggressively used local funds to replace and upgrade significant portions at its collection system.
Phase II The City of Ripley is currently finishing up Phase II of the wastewater project. A newly constructed Sequencing Batch Reactor Treatment Plant is now operational and receiving wastewater from both Ripley and Evans. The plant is designed to treat an average of 1.2 million gallons day with a capacity of 4 million gallons per day.
