Electricity
Council Bluffs is served by MidAmerican Energy which consistently
provides reliable service to customers and energy rates below regional
or national averages. Council Bluffs is home of one of MidAmerican’s largest
coal fired generating stations. The three generating units located on the
city’s southern edge have a total capacity of 809 megawatts. MidAmerican
is the 42nd largest utility in the United States.
MidAmerican Energy and the Iowa Utilities Board have chosen Council Bluffs,
Iowa, to be the participating community for the MidAmerican Electric Choice
project, in which at least 15,000 Iowa families and 2,000 small businesses
will have the chance to test competition among electricity providers.
Gas
Peoples Natural Gas, a division of UtiliCorp United, serves the Council
Bluffs area. UtiliCorp serves an eight state region allowing buying clout
that ensures its customers the most competitive prices.
Telecommunications
The metropolitan area is recognized as the national leader in telecommunications
and tele-technology industries serving a global market. Council Bluffs
is strategically located at the convergence of several national fiber optic
networks.
Council Bluffs local telephone service is offered by US West Communications.
US West offers a wide variety of service to our area including frame relay
service, caller ID, SHNS , ISDN, SHARP, Command-a-Link, Custom Local Area
Signaling, Digital Switchboard Service, Transparent LAN Service, Frame
Relay and Synchronous Service Transport.
Our central location in the country can result in lower long distance
cost. Further enhancing your profitability potential is the variety of
primary and secondary long distance carriers with points of presence in
the area. Eight Points of Presence serve the area provided by MCI (3),
AT&T (2), Wiltel, LDDS, and Sprint. These alternatives provide businesses
with the reliability and affordability of service critical to communication
intensive organization.
Sewage Treatment
The City of Council Bluffs operates a secondary sewage treatment
plant which serves the area. The plant has an average of 6.7 million gallons
per day, with a peak load of 12.8 million gallons per day. The plant has
a capacity of 18 million gallons per day.
Water
The Council Bluffs Water Works provides water service to the area.
The community has the luxury of an affordable source of water in the Missouri
River. The publicly owned plant has a capacity of 20.0 million gallons
with the average consumption of 9.5 million gallons. The elevated storage
capacity is 9.7 million gallons.
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