Hauling Less Costs Less: A Recipe for Biosolids Volume Reduction

A microbial product on a growth-promoting substrate helps a Massachusetts clean-water plant sharply reduce biosolids volume and drive down handling costs.

Hauling Less Costs Less: A Recipe for Biosolids Volume Reduction

The South Deerfield Wastewater Treatment Plant in a view looking toward the northeast side of Mount Sugarloaf. 

Biosolids production and hauling costs had tripled in recent years for the Town of Deerfield (Massachusetts) Wastewater Division. As landfills and incinerators were mothballed for various reasons, those costs were expected to escalate, and I knew I needed to do everything I could...

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