Macon Municipal Utilities waste water treatment facility was built in 1960 with major additions to the plant in 1985. Major additions in 1988 included the addition of one more primary settling basin, a 660,000 gallon storm-water overflow basin was added, and the capacity of the solids processing facility was doubled.  

The current plant includes two primary settling basins, two rock media trickling filters, one secondary plastic media trickling filter tower, and two final clarifiers.

The plant uses vacuum filter solids processing equipment to dewater the solids for our land application program.  The dry solids created by the system are distributed by land application to individuals who request the fertilizer and have acreage large enough to accept it.   The plant has a design flow of 2.5 million gallons per day (MGD); actual flow of 1.5 MGD and a design solids production of 1,310 dry tons per year.