Why was the new wastewater treatment plant built?
The Southwest wastewater plant, 3200 Industrial Street , was constructed to handle the high strength wastewater from the new Armour Swift-Echrich meat processing plant. It would have been much more expensive and difficult to pump this wastewater to the wastewater plant located on Grant Avenue . The strength and volume of the additional waste would have made it necessary to at least double the capacity of the original plant. Also, the new plant is capable of treating additional industrial, commercial and residential wastewater for future development in the western portion of the City.
