Standards are very high — very high — at the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District.
A vendor offering a one-year guarantee on a piece of equipment needs to think again. When team members at this district in east-central Illinois looked to upgrade the pumps on three anaerobic digesters, they expected a lifetime of about 20.Almost eight years in, the chopper pumps (Landia) installed on the 500,000-gallon digesters are “very dependable, reliable and durable,” according to Justin Profancik, director of operations.Proud History
Created more than a century ago by voter petition, the district is an independent municipal body that provides wastewater treatment for
