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Municipal wastewater can include many pollutants which effect on the environment so that the treatment is very necessary before discharge into water bodies and for further recycle in recreation and agriculture. So that in this present study considers the treatment of municipal wastewater through electrocoagulation (EC) and chemical coagulation (CC) with comparison of both processes. For EC aluminium electrode and iron electrode was used with different voltage and time. For the CC aluminium sulfate and ferric chloride was used with coagulant dosage and contact time. After treating the municipal wastewater for the electrocoagulation maximum removal efficiency of COD, TOC, TDS and BOD in is 85%, 87%, 82% and 81% for aluminium electrode. 92%, 92%, 84% and 88% for iron electrode respectively. For the chemical coagulation maximum removal efficiency of COD, TOC, TDS and BOD is 81.66%, 80.09%, 84.67% and 77.08% for aluminum sulfate as coagulant and 86%, 83.90%, 87.73%, 81.8% for ferric chloride as coagulant. Here this study performance was achieved that the electrocoagulation was better than the chemical coagulation. And Fe is very promising electrode compare to Al.