The Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority (MHMUA) owns and operates over 40 pumping stations in six townships (Mount Holly, Hainesport, Eastampton, Westampton, Lumberton, and Moorestown) and maintains more than 150 miles of sanitary (gravity and force) mains that flow to a 5 million gallon per day (mgd) Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility. The MHMUA services approximately 50,000 residential customers in addition to approximately 600 commercial customers and approximately 30 industrial users. Industrial users are regulated by MHMUA's approved Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP). The MHMUA is also a major receptor of liquid waste including sludges, septage, leachate, and miscellaneous wastewaters that are processed at the treatment facility under the direction of MHMUA's hauled wastes program. The treatment plant is the designated septage receiving facility for Burlington County.

MHMUA's Advanced Treatment Facility

The MHMUA's Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility is a complex operation comprised of three individual but interconnected plants constructed at different times beginning in the late 1940s. Plant No.1 was originally placed into operation in 1950 with a design capacity of 0.7 mgd; followed by Plant No. 2, which was placed into operation in 1960 with a design capacity of 1.3 mgd. Both plants provided secondary treatment using standard-rate trickling filters, and provided a combined design capacity of 2.0 mgd. The plant was expanded in 1981 to a design capacity of 5.0 mgd with the addition of Plant No. 3, which included additional primary clarification, Powdered Activated Carbon/Activated Sludge (PAC/AS), secondary clarification, high-rate rapid sand filtration, chlorination/dechlorination, and post-aeration facilities.