The Edmonds Wastewater Treatment Plant has taken big steps toward sustainability.
Those steps were outlined several years ago in a document called the Pathway to Sustainability, prepared with the Washington Department of Enterprise Services and Ameresco, an energy services company.
As Edmonds prepares to take its next big step down the path — conversion from incinerating solids to a gasification process — the outline is proving its value. In 2020 Edmonds, a short drive from Seattle, was honored as a Utility of the Future Today in the category of energy efficiency by the Water Environment Federation.
“Basically, we followed a planned sequential order
