Welcome to the Washington Aqueduct
 The
Washington Aqueduct produces drinking water for approximately one million
citizens living, working, or visiting in the District of Columbia, Arlington
County, Virginia, and the City of Falls Church, Virginia, and its service
area. A division of the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
the Aqueduct is a federally owned and operated public water supply agency
that produces an average of 180 million gallons of water per day at
two treatment plants located in the District of Columbia. All funding
for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements comes from revenue
generated by selling drinking water to the three jurisdictions.
The Corps of Engineers designed, built, and,
in 1859, began operating the Aqueduct. Since then, the Corps has substantially
expanded and improved the capacity and function of the Aqueduct from
its original mission of supplying raw river water to a sparsely populated
District of Columbia to today’s mission of providing safe drinking
water to a much larger and more populous service area.
Our business address:
5900 MacArthur Boulevard
Washington, D.C. 20016-2514
Our telephone number:
202-764-2753
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