SHAW WWTF - Boone County, Missouri Wastewater Treatment Plant

SHAW WWTF is a wastewater treatment facility located in Boone County, Missouri, United States. The plant serves a small population of 300 residents, reflecting its role in a rural or small community setting within the county. The facility provides secondary treatment, which is the standard biological treatment stage required under the U.S. Clean Water Act for municipal wastewater. With a designed capacity of 189.27 megaliters and an annual discharge volume of 113.56 megaliters, the plant operates below its capacity, indicating adequate headroom for current demand. The treated effluent is discharged into local waterways that ultimately drain into the Missouri River watershed, a major tributary of the Mississippi River. This downstream connection to the Mississippi River system underscores the plant's role in protecting water quality in a nationally significant river basin.

The plant discharges into the Missouri River watershed, which flows into the Mississippi River and eventually the Gulf of Mexico. This downstream chain supports diverse aquatic life and provides drinking water for millions. The plant's secondary treatment helps reduce organic pollutants and suspended solids, protecting local streams and the larger river ecosystem from nutrient loading and oxygen depletion.