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Community-based Sanitation Communal Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is one of the solutions for dense urban areas to improve environmental quality. This paper evaluates wastewater treatment plant-based Community participation in Community Self-Reliance (KSM) Mandiri, Metro City, Lampung. The methods used are quantitative with laboratory tests resulting from the effluent of Communal WWTP conducted in the dry season in September and qualitative with interviews with board member and local facilitators. Communal WWTP uses an anaerobic filter and uses biofilter that is used from recycled plastic bottles. Laboratory management results show that the BOD and Ammonia parameters do not meet the standard requirements of the Ministry of Environment and foresty 68 of 2016 about Quality Standard of Domestic Wastewater. The activities of the WWTP management group at KSM Mandiri did not run well and needs help for the government fundings to maintenance WWTP. Additional biofilter WWTP component and zeolite are needed to reduce BOD and ammonia levels of effluent and local community involve to every process in this program.