Utilities
Electricity in Franklin County is provided by American Electric Power - Appalachian.
Sewer utility in Franklin County is provided by:
- Boones Mill
- Type of Plant: Waste stabilization lagoon
- Capacity: 30,000 gallons per day
- Present Load: 20,000 gallons per day
- Available Capacity: 10,000 gallons per day
- Ferrum
- Type of Plant: Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR)
- Capacity: 400,000 gallons per day
- Present Load: 140,000 gallons per day
- Available Capacity: 260,000 gallons per day
- Town of Rocky Mount
- Type of Plant: Aeration
- Capacity: 2 million gallons per day
- Present Load: 650,000 gallons per day
- Available Capacity: 1.35 million gallons per day
Franklin County owns and operates a Central Sanitary Landfill.
Water utility in Franklin County is provided by:
- Ferrum Water and Sewage Authority:
- Source: 3 wells
- Storage Capacity: 600,000 gallons
- Maximum Daily Capacity: 300,000 gallons
- Average Daily Use: 140,000 gallons per day
- Available Capacity: 160,000 gallons per day
- Franklin County Public Works Department:
- Franklin County: Phase I of Public System
- Contracted Source: Bedford County Public Service Authority
- Contracted Storage Capacity: 400,000 gallons
- Maximum Daily Capacity: 400,000 gallons
- Average Daily Use: To Be Determined
- Available Capacity: 400,000 gallons per day
- Town of Boones Mill:
- Source: Spring, 2 wells
- Storage Capacity: 250,000 gallons
- Maximum Daily Capacity: 90,000 gallons (Minimum)
- Average Daily Use: 78,000 gallons per day
- Available Capacity: 12,000 gallons per day (Minimum)
- Town of Rocky Mount:
- Source: Blackwater River
- Storage Capacity: 2.7 million gallons
- Maximum Daily Capacity: 2 million gallons
- Average Daily Use: 835,000 gallons per day
- Available capacity: 1.16 million gallons per day