At the Sacramento Area Sewer District (SacSewer), our mission is clear— serving our community by protecting public health and the environment through sewage collection, treatment, and resource recovery. We are the second-largest sewage collection utility in California, and we own and operate the second-largest water resource recovery facility of its kind in the nation, the EchoWater Resource Recovery Facility, located near Elk Grove.
“Every day, our team serves with purpose. At SacSewer, we’re not just managing sewage — we’re turning it into opportunity by protecting public health, supporting a cleaner environment, and recovering resources for our region’s future.” – Christoph Dobson, SacSewer General Manager
SacSewer provides services to more than 1.6 million people by safely collecting, treating, and recovering resources from more than 42 billion gallons of sewage every year from homes and businesses in the Sacramento region. We employ highly trained professionals — both in the office and in the field — who work every day to deliver on our mission. Keeping our sewer system in top operating condition is a 24/7 job, and we take that job very seriously. As part of this commitment, we measure our performance in several key areas to ensure we’re meeting customer expectations and delivering on our mission. One of our most important commitments is arriving onsite within two hours when a customer reports a sewer problem — day, night, weekend, or holiday. This ensures our customers are receiving timely, reliable support when it matters most.
Most people don’t realize how valuable resources from sewage can be. Through our sustainable efforts in resource recovery, we maximize the reuse of treatment process by-products, such as biogas (energy), biosolids (nutrients), and the treated water itself in the form of recycled water.
Although often unseen, the work we do is critically important, and we are proud to serve as the Sacramento region’s sewage collection, treatment, and resource recovery utility. It’s a dirty job, but we’re happy to do it.
