Win-Win: Biosolids Program Holds Down Solids Management Costs and Delivers Quality Product to Farmers

Orem’s award-winning biosolids program delivers a quality product to farmers while holding solids management costs down.

Win-Win: Biosolids Program Holds Down Solids Management Costs and Delivers Quality Product to Farmers

Dan Shorten adjusts the dosing of polymer (SNF Polydyne) in the press room. 

The Orem, Utah, biosolids operation enjoys the best of both worlds — maybe the best of many.

The treatment plant’s old but well-maintained dewatering system produces a 15 percent-solids cake. All biosolids are applied on area farms, and there are more takers than the plant can...

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