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NBMA Video
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Phone - 610-262-6711
NBMA is excited to
announce that we now offer debit billing to our customers! Stop in our main
office at The 2007 Consumer
Confidence Report is completed and posted for your convenience on this
website. It is a good way to find out information about contaminant testing
results and how the water you drink daily impacts your life. Remember, even
though it is 2008, this report if for the calendar year 2007. And teachers,
it’s a great tool to aid in water purification education in the
classroom! General Information: Northampton Borough
Municipal Authority (NBMA), formed in 1940, provides water service in the
Boroughs of Northampton and North Catasauqua and Northampton Borough
Municipal Authority has two surface water sources, the primary is the NBMA's Dedication: The Northampton Borough
Municipal Authority is dedicated to providing its customers with safe, dependable
drinking water at a reasonable cost. NBMA Board Members:
Gerald J. Deily Phone: 610-262-6711
All Requests must be made in
writing (if the requester wishes to pursue Fax: 610-262-6796
relief and remedies under the
Right to Know Law), submitted to the Email: nbmawater@aol.com Open Records Officer of the Authority at
the Authority address on a Address:
form to be provided. Terry Mutchler, Executive Director Phone: 717-346-9903 Fax: 717-425-5343 Email: tmutchler@state.pa.us Web: http://openrecords.state.pa.us Address: Office of Open Records
Raw water enters
facilities at the Lehigh River Intake where activated carbon is added to
reduce color, taste and odors. The raw water is pumped via a 16-inch pipe to the
Water Treatment Plant. Additional supply is available by gravity from the
Spring Mill Reservoir. These supplies can be used independently or in
combination. At the treatment plant,
which currently has a capacity of 8.0 million gallons per day, water flows by
gravity through four treatment steps. First, chemicals are added to and mixed
with the water as it enters the "rapid mix chamber." The chemicals
condition the water to assist in the removal of iron, manganese and suspended
solids in subsequent stages of treatment. Chlorine is used to disinfect the
water. After rapid mixing, the water flows in "flocculators" where
slow gentle mixing occurs for 20 minutes to form "floc," large
particles suitable for removal by settling. The water then flows through the
"sedimentation basins" in which some of the "floc"
settles to the bottom. Approximately 80% of the suspended solids are removed
in these basins. The clearer water from the top of the basins flows to the
filters where it is strained through a granular media bed consisting of 18
inches of anthracite and 12 inches of sand. Any suspended solids remaining in
the water are removed as the water passes through the filters. The water then
enters the clearwell where post-chemicals including chlorine are added so that
the water remains free from disease-producing organisms and other undesirable
substances as it travels through the distribution system. This completes the
treatment process.
Schedule of Water Rates
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