Through a Decade of Effort, Murfreesboro Wins Dramatic Effluent Nitrogen and Phosphorus Reductions

A Tennessee facility team rewrites the playbook on nutrient removal to clear the way for a plant expansion essential to economic growth in its community.

Through a Decade of Effort, Murfreesboro Wins Dramatic Effluent Nitrogen and Phosphorus Reductions

Anthony Pollock, plant supervisor, samples the sludge blanket in a clarifier.

When facing what seemed insurmountable odds to meet aggressive new effluent nutrient limits, the Murfreesboro Water Resources Department team members banded together.

They drew upon internal resources, skills and innovation to complete a treatment plant expansion that was...

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