John B. Kenkel, General Counsel
Robert J. McLeod, Chief Engineer

4017 Hamilton Street, Hyattsviile Telephone: Appleton 7-7700

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, created by the
General Assembly in 1918, consists of six members appointed by the
Governor. Two are nominated by the Commissioners of Prince George's
County, and two, by the Montgomery County Council. The Governor
selects the other two, one from each county. All serve four-year terms,
except that the terms of two members appointed in 1959 will be for
an initial term of two years. When the Commission was organized,
the Washington Suburban Sanitary District had an area of 94 square
miles. In succeeding years the General Assembly has made additions,
and the District now contains 326 square miles within Prince George's
and Montgomery counties adjacent to the District of Columbia. The
present Sanitary District has an estimated population of about 600,000
and an assessed valuation of $1,433,230,656.

The Commission provides for the construction and the operation of
the water supply and sewerage systems, has jurisdiction over storm
drainage, pumping, and the location of utilities, and provides refuse
disposal service within the Sanitary District. It also operates a refuse
collection service in the suburban portion of Montgomery County. The
Commission has been designated as the organization responsible for
the administration, maintenance and operation of the Anacostia River
Flood Control and Navigation Project. As of December 31, 1958, the
water and sewerage systems of the Commission contained 1,575 and
1,316 miles of mains respectively.

The main present source of water supply of the Sanitary District is
the Patuxent River, which the Commission has impounded by the con-
struction of dams near Brighton in Montgomery County and near
Laurel in Prince George's County. The Patuxent Filtration Plant gives
the Washington Suburban Sanitary District an assured yield of 66
million gallons daily. The Commission also obtains a portion of its
water supply from the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River,
where water is treated in a rapid sand filtration plant at Burnt Mills.
A third source of supply comes from deep wells at Forest Heights in
the southern portion of the District. Total supply is about 80 million
gallons daily.

Construction of the new Watts Branch Filtration Plant started in
early 1969. This is the Commission's first tap of the Potomac River,
and the first section of the facility is scheduled to go into operation
in 1960 with a production capacity of 30 million gallons daily. These
facilities will be expanded over successive 10-year periods to an ulti-
mate capacity of 120 million gallons daily in 1990. The Commission
expects to be serving 1.2 million people, twice the number of its
present customers, by the turn of the century.

(Acts 1918, chap. 122; Acts 1920, chap. 518; Acts 1924, chaps. 189,
190, 252, 469; Acts 1927, chaps. 506, 607; Acts 1931, chaps. 232, 622;
Acts 1938, chap. 597; Acts 1937, chaps. 46, 140, 296, 389, 391; Acts
1939, chaps. 193, 253, 257, 266, 540; Acts 1941, chaps. 280, 668, 802
892; Acts 1943, chaps. 450, 451, 468, 620, 522, 524, 526, 626, 993
Acts 1946, chaps. 917, 1024, 1029; Acts' 1947, chaps. 143, 361, 362
363, 365, 732, 733, 734, 736, 739, 820; Acts 1947 (Sp. Sess.) chap. 66
Acts 1948 (Sp. Sess.) chap. 57; Acts 1948, chaps. 342, 537, 538, 53S
641 728; Acts 1950, chaps. 92, 93, 94; Acts 1951, chaps. 100, 376, 384
386 662, 663, 691; Acts 1952, J.R. 6; Acts 1953, chaps. 183, 349, 350
352 363, 354, 355, 356, 367, 358, 366, 374, 386, 430, 434, 521, 522
626 666, 786; Acts 1956, chaps. 78, 79, 117, 118, 154, 231, 266, 366-358
496 647-659, 664, 686, 687, 717, 723; Acts 1957, chaps. 685, 271, 686
186 691, 346, 779, 624, 637, 642, 361, 362, 363; Acts 1959, chaps. 225
228 229, 243, 286, 461, 470, 471, 618, 654, 656, 707, 710, 776, 779, 785)