There isn’t much on the sustainability menu that the Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District hasn’t sampled.
Using biogas from digesters as an energy source? They’ve been doing that for decades. Adding food waste to the digesters to increase gas production? Beneficially using biosolids? Using wastewater effluent for heating and cooling? Done, done and done.That list of projects and more — such as partnering with the Urbana Park District to build a restored wetland on land previously occupied sludge storage lagoons — helped the district win the 2024 Sustainability and Green Infrastructure Award from the Central States Water Environment Association.The district’s Northeast
