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The Englewood Water District in Southwest Florida installed their first vacuum system in 1996. The V-1 project served 1500 customers. Since then, EWD has installed 5 more vacuum systems; bring the total number of customers served by vacuum to 8,000.

Vacuum collection proved to be about 25% less in capital cost compared to gravity sewer. District officials have reported that the O&M costs are in line with those projected and have gone as far as to say they prefer vacuum systems over gravity systems.

When all nine phases are completed, Englewood will have one of the largest vacuum sewer systems in the world, with 7 vacuum stations and 3,000 vacuum valves serving more than 10,000 customers.