City Water, Light & Power supplies domestic water for more than 44,000 Springfield residential and business customers. The utility also provides retail water service to over 6,600 customers in Southern View, Leland Grove and certain unincorporated areas around the city. Wholesale service is provided to several other adjacent communities, including Chatham, Grandview, Jerome, Loami and Rochester. More information about our outside-the-city retail and wholesale water customers can be found elsewhere on this website. The population of CWLP's total service territory is more than 155,000.

The Water Division is responsible for planning, constructing and maintaining the city's integrated water supply, purification, and transmission and distribution system—which includes Lake Springfield, the lakeside Water Purification Plant, five water storage tanks, and over 600 miles of water mains. The Division's primary mission is to ensure that all utility customers will have a safe and plentiful water supply in both the immediate and long-term future. Toward this end, the Division operates a 24-hour laboratory where chemists and plant operators consistently and continually check drinking water quality. Division employees are also actively involved in searching out the best options for protecting our current supply source and planning for long-range needs.

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Last update: 03/17/10

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