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With the increased scrutiny placed on operators of road side rest stops to maintain system operation within environmental regulatory requirements and maintain low cost operations, the Ohio Department of Transportation in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, commissioned the implementation of a wastewater treatment plant telemetry monitoring pilot project. This project incorporated the implementation of a state-of-the-art SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system providing ODOT operators and management the ability to remotely monitor and control operations of the Rt. 32 Rest Stop Wastewater Treatment plant. This rest stop is located in Pike County approximately 100 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. The system was retrofitted with new analog and discrete instrumentation tied to a local programmable controller. The programmable controller was designed with the ability for remote operation by ODOT supervisory personnel to access information via phone modem. The control scheme at the wastewater treatment plant was enhanced and modified to minimize ammonia discharge from the facility. This was accomplished by using the existing package treatment system and through software logic in the programmable controller modify the operation from a strictly timed operation into a sequencing batch reactor.