EditorialSome Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.

Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.

The award-winning Fort Collins biosolids program follows quality procedures in applying Class B material on a city-owned 26,000-acre ranch.

  • Appeared in print as "Pervasive Excellence"
  • By Jim Force
  • November 2020
  • Top Performer - Biosolids
Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.
Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City. Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City. Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City. Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.

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Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.

Jennifer Ward and Nate Ader monitor one of the 11 groundwater wells on the ranch.

Some clean-water plants have trouble finding land to apply their biosolids. That’s not the case at Fort Collins, Colorado. 

The city owns the 26,000-acre Meadow Springs Ranch, a cattle ranch near the Colorado-Wyoming border that’s 30 miles from the plant. Trucks haul...

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