For a facility serving a population of 3,300, the City of West Liberty (Iowa) Wastewater Treatment Plant handles large flows and...
Entries Tagged Land Application
Blogs
Petitioners seek EPA ban on biosolids land application
The Age of Autism website is asking people to use the Obama Administration’s “We the People” website to petition the U.S. EPA...
Blogs
They still invoke the bogeyman
Land application of biosolids is welcome in and around many communities. Still, we occasionally see news reports on the “horrors” of the...
Editorial
As Clean as it Gets
Drive past a farm where City of Muscatine, Iowa, staffers are applying
biosolids and you probably wouldn't know what you were watching.
You'd never...
Editorial
Waste Stream to Revenue Stream
The City of Killeen, Texas, and the Bell CountyWater Control & Improvement District No. 1 have turned biosolids from three wastewater treatment...
Editorial
Division of Labor
Keith Kontor and his team know how to produce high-quality biosolids. Dave Varner knows how to explain the product’s benefits to farmers....
Editorial
Making the Best of It
The 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant in Phoenix, Ariz., has a simple mission: meet permits; reduce chemical, energy, and biosolids costs; automate...
Editorial
Making Hay
There’s an old saying: Make hay while the sun shines. But the West Jackson County Land Treatment Facility, in Ocean Springs, Miss.,...
Editorial
It's a Natural
Think of the Clayton County (Ga.) WaterAuthority as a huge irrigation system. Now think of its William B. Casey Water Reclamation Facility...
Editorial
Working Hand in Hand
Like a hand in a glove, wastewater treatment has matched the rapid growth of housing in Huntley, Ill. Developments like Sun City,...
Editorial
Done Just Right
Almost everything about the Stewartstown Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant speaks to its diminutive size. Though located on 20+ acres, the plant itself...














