AlexRenew is a wastewater treatment authority serving Alexandria and parts of Fairfax County. Each year, our facility processes and cleans approximately 13 billion gallons of wastewater received from area homes, schools, and businesses. For more than 60 years AlexRenew has protected the community, serving as Alexandria’s resilient provider of clean waterways.

AlexRenew (formerly Alexandria Sanitation Authority) was created in 1952 to build, operate and maintain a new sewage treatment system to serve Alexandria and parts of Fairfax County, which made good engineering and financial sense. At that time, the Potomac River was choked with raw sewage, which posed a severe health threat to the community. We haven’t stopped protecting our community’s health and the environment since our first day of plant operation in July 1956.