The region’s largest treatment plant was crippled in a catastrophic flood Feb. 9. So when it rains a lot, it pours ­— right out of the plant’s emergency outfall. On three days of heavy rain last month ...

GREENFIELD -- Department of Public Works director Donald Oulette presented inflated municipal cost data as he made the case for investing in a $6 million anaerobic digester to handle sewage sludge, ...

WASHINGTON — What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- The Medina County Solid Waste District is close to finishing its improvements to the Kenneth W. Hotz Water Reclamation Facility, which will include two anaerobic digesters that will ...

Each year, the United States produces more than 12 million tons of sludge – the thick mixture of solid and liquid matter left over from processing wastewater and raw sewage in treatment plants. And it ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - Appleton’s anaerobic digesters have been taken offline due to an issue with a processing chemical, according to the city. Anaerobic digesters are part of the wastewater ...

After more than a year of operating with only one digester, the Elk River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Eureka is now operating at full capacity. For the first time this year, the Eureka City Council ...

To upgrade and expand sustainable power for its plant that treats 3.2 million gallons of wastewater daily, the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District’s project team had a tall hurdle to ...

At a sprawling sewage treatment plant in north San Jose, engineers are slowly perfecting the ideal temperature for a smelly mixture of bacteria and human waste as the stew churns inside four massive ...

Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to new research from Princeton University. And since ...

EAST PROVIDENCE — As a porous conveyor belt rolls forward, the murky soup it carries drains of water and leaves behind a thick sludge the consistency of wet cement. There’s no question about it. This ...