Take a tour of the Yellow Springs (Ohio) Water Reclamation Facility, and see how Superintendent Joe Bates transformed the facility from a...
Entries Tagged Land Application
Editorial
Wisconsin’s Ho-Chunk Nation Expands Wastewater Treatment Plant
Native American tribes strive to make decisions with thought about their effects seven generations into the future.Wisconsin’s Ho-Chunk Nation couldn’t look that far...
Editorial
A State Biosolids Council Finds Farmers Are The Most Effective Sources Of Information For The Public
Everyone has played the game, “Telephone,” where players pass a message from person to person and see how it’s distorted by the...
Online Exclusives
Victory! Washington Court Upholds Biosolids Application
Biosolids earned a legal victory this month when the Washington Court of Appeals struck down a Wahkiakum County ban on the land...
Editorial
Dumping “Human Waste”? No, They’re Not.
I subscribe to various Google alerts, and it seems every week I get links to news articles about a clean-water agency spreading...
Editorial
What’s All the Fuss?
Biosolids have been put to beneficial use for decades, in fact for centuries. Across North America, excellent recycling programs have thrived for...
Editorial
Green Insurance
In the western Oregon cities of Springfield and Eugene, a successful program provides land-applied biosolids to local farmers, mainly for growing grasses. But...
Online Exclusives
Biosolids Experts Downplay Effects of Drugs, Household Chemicals in Land Application
Concerned? Not really.Interested? Of courseThat’s the stance biosolids specialists are taking in response to a May 12 article in Scientific American magazine...
Online Exclusives
Weekly News Briefs: Researcher Harvests Energy from Ammonia
Stanford University researcher Yaniv Scherson has developed a process that captures ammonia from wastewater, converts it to nitrous oxide, and then burns...
Blogs
Whole Foods Market Drops Produce Grown With Biosolids
In an unfortunate turn of events for the clean-water industry, the organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market announced it will no longer...
Online Exclusives
Show Me Your Septage
Rising septage disposal costs and fewer land-application locations are two reasons the Marietta (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment Plant recently organized a septage acceptance...
Editorial
Sunflower Power
It is the picture of a sustainable system: nourishing crops with biosolids, converting crops into biodiesel, fueling engines to power a wastewater...
Online Exclusives
Reed bed technology for biosolids dewatering and storage
As the cost of treating and storing biosolids continues to rise, some wastewater treatment plant operators are using an alternative to conventional...
Editorial
Sowing for Savings
Facing stricter state and federal regulations for the land application of biosolids more than two decades ago, officials in Boise, ...













