Water management

The water distribution in Jokioinen is handled by the municipals water treatment plant. The municipal buys the majority of the distributed water from Jokioisten Vedenhankinta Oy, which is owned by the municipal, large industrial facilities and the local research institute. Jokioisten Vedenhankinta Oy owns two water intakes and the municipals water treatment plant owns one water intake. The municipal and the Jokioisten Vedenhankinta Oy both own half of the upper water tank in the urban area.

The sewage water in the area of operation is handled by Jokioisten water treatment plant. The industrial zone has two private sewage treatment plants.

The water network of the treatment plant and the Jokioisten Vedenhankinta Oy nearly covers the entire municipality excluding some few locations near the borders of the municipality. The sewage network covers the central of the town and Humppila’s transfer sewers, such as the areas of Kiipunmäki and the Minkiö station.

There are three small water consortiums in the municipality, where one of them also handles the areas sewage water cleaning.

Plan of improvement

The plan of improvement for the water treatment covers the entire municipality. The plan of improvement presents the municipals affecting areas which includes water treatments improvement needs and measures, measures that affect the economy of the water treatment plant and environmental effects.

Furthermore, the plan presents the outlooks of the improvements such as organizational policies, connecting the improvement plan with another and the improvement of the community structure.

The improvement plan communicates to the current and future citizens of Jokioinen on how municipality handles and improves the treatment of water.

There have been formed a joint water treatment plan for the years 2013-2023 for Jokioinen, Forssa and Tammela.