The Fort Worth (Texas) biosolids land application program ran smoothly for more than 15 years. Then along came an odor problem that led to stories on the evening news and complaint calls to the mayor’s office from neighbors of application sites.It was a challenging problem, but the biosolids team had the recipe for the solution. An environmental management system (EMS) laid out a structured path to help identify the root cause, evaluate potential remedies, and put the best ones into practice.Today, after the addition of chemical treatment processes, the odor problem has been greatly reduced and the biosolids program is
