The City of Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant sits on 184 acres in the National Park Service’s Moccasin Bend Archeological District, a unit of the 956-acre Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park in Tennessee.It wasn’t always that way. When built in 1961, the plant sat alone across the river from the city’s downtown on the peninsula formed by a major bend in the Tennessee River. There was no park. “The military park has just kind of grown up around us,” says Michael Patrick, superintendent of the plant (140 mgd design flow, 65 mgd average).As a result, Patrick and his staff
