Entries Tagged Land Application

Today an increasing number of wastewater treatment plants are utilizing alternative energy sources and optimized processes to drive down operating expense. Through...

The Racine (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant has occupied a 21-acre site on the west shore of Lake Michigan since 1937. Plant leaders...

Wastewater process diagrams from the 1990s typically showed an arrow in the lower right corner pointing off the page into space, typically...

When the City of Prattville, Alabama, decided to upgrade its Pine Creek Clean Water Facility, it spared no effort. While the city had...

Entry 244241Protesters in Chase, British Columbia, are blocking the routes of trucks transporting biosolids to a bison ranch. The protesters represent the Secwepmc...

Yes. No. Maybe. Depends on the circumstances. Requires more research. Like so many questions about contaminants in the environment, the issue of perfluorooctane...

Anyone who thinks biosolids application is just a matter of driving a tank truck across a field needs to visit Sioux Falls,...

Soil may be a natural filter that can act as a tertiary treatment for wastewater, preventing antibiotics from contaminating groundwater, according to...

For years, Class A Exceptional Quality status has been a major goal for clean-water agencies seeking beneficial use of their biosolids.Class A...

Sue Baert credits her husband, Dan, for gettinG HER into the wastewater treatment industry.“I grew up on a Wisconsin farm, got my...

The open access article for the July 2016 edition of Water Environment Research evaluates the impact of alkaline to stabilize the release...

For years, the town of Leesburg (Virginia) Water Pollution Control Facility land-applied Class B liquid biosolids to neighboring farm fields.“For that particular...

Josh Holton, a Class III wastewater operator at the Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District near Hebron, Ohio, takes phosphorus seriously....

When leaders in the Iowa city of Dubuque began seeking proposals for a wastewater treatment plant upgrade, they made one thing clear.“The...