When most flow comes from just two industrial sources, a wastewater treatment plant has to be ready to respond to changes in operations. That is easier in Morton, Miss., since a plant update in summer of 2012.Two poultry processing plants account for about 85 percent of the average 2.5 mgd flow at the Morton Wastewater Treatment Plant. When the plants operate at peak output, however, their flows often push the treatment plant up to or beyond its 3.15 mgd design capacity. “If not for the poultry processing plants, we would have hardly any flow at all,” says Rickey Parker, plant
