A long-standing environmental liability may soon become a strategic industrial asset. Researchers in Denmark ...

An innovative technique has been proposed for treating and purifying wastewater, which could spare budget-strapped municipalities some of the expense of handling the sludge that remains after ...

For the Elgin Water Department, taking lime away is a $1.89 million annual proposition. Last week, the City Council unanimously agreed to pay that amount for removing lime residuals, which are a ...

Oct. 4—PHOENIXVILLE — Everything old is new again, at least at the Phoenixville Wastewater Treatment Plant. There, a "new" technology whose actual discovery dates back to before World War I is getting ...

SOURCE OF SLUDGE: The city of Asheville's North Fork Water Treatment Plant produced roughly 630,000 gallons of residuals in both 2017 and 2018. Photo by Adam McMillan A moldy half-sandwich, wilting ...

Study finds the flow behavior of sewage sludge can be used as a tool to gauge how quickly organic matter is dissolving at high temperatures, paving the way for online monitoring. A new way of tracking ...

Most people don’t like to think about what happens to human waste once it’s flushed away but for Bryan Clor and others working on the receiving end at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) it’s a ...

Sewage sludge plant developers submitted a revised application to Plainfield Township last week, which eliminates the plan to discharge treated water into local creeks. Synagro Technologies Inc. has ...

PLATTSBURGH — The City of Plattsburgh says a new sludge treatment process shouldn’t result in odors from its compost plant. The Town of Plattsburgh is reviewing an application from the city for a ...

A new way of tracking how sewage sludge flows during thermal treatment could help engineers design better wastewater treatment plants and boost production of biogas. Researchers at RMIT University in ...