There’s a new proposal on the table to update and expand an existing sludge digester in town ... send less than 10,000 tons to Juniper Ridge Landfill. “Our goal is to run at 50 percent ...

The EPA's cleanup plan calls for placing a fully encompassing slurry wall around the worst landfills and dumps at the plant ­— the wet scrubber sludge pond and the west landfill. The record ...

Metropolitan Council biosolids from its Empire wastewater plant were spread on a 100-acre harvested corn field on Nov, 20, 2019, in Farmington, Minn. (David Joles/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Council also heard a $4.8 million installation of a “bioreactor” is in the long ... as adding powerful chemicals or trucking product to landfills would be an option, but they could involve ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. The risk is highest for people who regularly ...

The draft risk assessment's findings show that human health risks may be associated with exposure to the “forever chemicals” PFOA or PFOS in all three methods of using or disposing of sewage sludge: ...

But the agency did find human health risks connected to PFAS exposure when treated sewage sludge — known as biosolids — was disposed in landfills, incinerated, or applied to farms or range lands.

Sludge Management: A byproduct of wastewater ... The introduction of advanced filtration technologies, such as membrane bioreactors and advanced oxidation processes, marks a significant step ...

The findings for the draft risk assessment show that there may be human health risks associated with exposure to the “forever chemicals” PFOA or PFOS with all three methods of using or disposing of ...