While the industry experiences frequent opportunities to expand and rehabilitate aging infrastructure in existing clean water facilities, rarely do we have the opportunity to start from a blank slate. In this case, the blank slate was a corn field in the southwest corner of Shelbyville, KY. Shelby County has consistently led the state of Kentucky in per capita growth, and since 2016 they have been saving and preparing for new infrastructure to accommodate. In 2020 Shelbyville submitted a regional facility plan to construct a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the western half of the county to split flows and relieve pressure on their existing WWTP in the east. The Shelbyville Municipal Water & Sewer Commission (SMWSC) started construction of the Dry Run Wastewater Treatment Plant (DRWWTP) in July 2022, a greenfield facility with an average day capacity of 2.3 million gallons per day (MGD). The plant uses an Orbal oxidation ditch for secondary treatment of relatively high strength municipal influent from industrial users and the new IJW distillery. Discharging to Clear Creek as of May of 2025, DRWWTP is currently working through final start up and commissioning. Initially, solids dewatering was to take place at the SMWSC existing plant; however, trucking frequency and costs have increased, making a new solids dewatering facility at the new plant the most cost-effective solution. That a solids dewatering facility is currently being built to process waste sludge instead of hauling to the existing WWTP.