Into the FOG

The Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant has formed partnerships for cogeneration and for grease collection to boost biogas production.

Sep 16, 2013 | by Doug Day |

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Into the FOG — Debra Buckmann walks among the biosolids storage basins.

Into the FOG — The biosolids storage basins at SRCSD in Elk Grove. (Photography by Lezlie Sterling)

Into the FOG — Synagro plant manager Jan Guy surveys operations.

Into the FOG — Biogas/biosolids team members at the Sacramento district include, back row, from left, Stephen Moore, associate civil engineer; Kathleen Ave, project manager; Jose Ramirez Sr., civil engineer; and Grayson Kohls, assistant civil engineer II; front row, Mitchell Maidrand, principal civil engineer; Gerardo Aguirre, associate civil engineer; and Debra Buckmann, assistant civil engineer II.

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The Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Elk Grove, Calif., thrives on partnerships. Among these is a program that treats imported fats, oils and grease (FOG) to increase production of biogas for an on-site cogeneration plant. Owned and operated by the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD), the plant treats wastewater for 1.4 million residents and leases part of its land for the cogeneration plant, a biosolids recycling operation and a firm that manufactures ice. The FOG program was launched earlier this year in an effort to improve sustainability. Jose Ramirez, senior civil engineer, says the improvements go along with a new

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