The JB Messerly Water Pollution Control Plant stretches for more than a mile along a major thoroughfare into the City of Augusta, Ga. It's also next to the area's largest airport and is one of the first things visitors see when they arrive in town.
"It didn't make the most favorable impression," says Allen Saxon, assistant director of water and waste. So when a major upgrade and conversion from conventional activated sludge to the modified Ludzack-Ettinger process was planned in 2010, the city budgeted funds to landscape the area between the plant and
