Good neighbors are quiet, clean and thoughtful—just like our technologically advanced wastewater treatment facility. Nestled on 400 acres along Tennessee’s Cumberland River, to the casual passerby, it looks like the neighboring working farms along the rural stretch of Old Hickory Boulevard in West Nashville. 

The District’s facility efficiently treats wastewater using a 100 percent aerobic treatment system that allows us to produce annually more than two million pounds of biosolids used to fertilize fields around the plant. 

This fall, we planted about 88 acres of winter wheat and fescue.  We also cut back the corn and soybeans in the buffer zone, which should attract both game and non-game animals during the winter months.

It is a great place for wildlife. A couple of white-tailed does and their small fawns have been munching our clover in the north field. The industrious beavers haven’t slowed their dam-building in the ponds. Geese and wood ducks have found safe haven in our wetlands before continuing their journey south.  We’ve also spotted a couple of red-tailed hawks.