Dodge City’s South Wastewater Treatment Plant in southwest Kansas was built for zero stream discharge because even back in the 1980s, city leaders knew water would become a precious resource.
Today the plant sends effluent from its facultative lagoons to center-pivot irrigation systems that water and fertilize some 3,000 acres of cropland.
More recently, the city has taken to recycling biogas, to substantial benefit. The Warrior Biogas Project at the South Plant produces 1.6 million cubic feet of raw gas per day. After scrubbing, the gas is delivered via utility pipeline to a company that uses it to produce methanol for
