When the EPA and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management required dramatically lower levels of phosphorous in the effluent of this central Alabama wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) , it was simply not possible for the legacy system at the plant to reduce phosphorous discharge by 95%.
SouthWest Water Company engineered and built modifications to the North Shelby Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) that reduced the average phosphorous level to just 0.2 parts per million at a reasonable cost, thereby protecting the precious resource that is the Cahaba River.
SouthWest Water personnel have adopted a portion of The Cahaba River, under Alabama’s Adopt-A-Stream Program.