The death of a sewage plant maintenance worker in 2004 set the stage for a multimillion dollar project to build two egg-shaped sewage “digesters” at Spokane’s wastewater treatment plant on Aubrey L.

Co-digestion of food organics at wastewater treatment plants has emerged as a promising approach to address two significant environmental challenges: the management of organic waste and the production ...

The Navy has established aggressive targets for reducing energy consumption and increasing renewable energy production. To help achieve the goals laid out in the Navy's energy program, the NAS ...

Work is underway to clean digesters at Wheeling’s Water Pollution Control Plant – a project that is expected to improve nagging sewage odor issues that have wafted into the neighborhoods within ...

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 ...

Bacteria are evolving resistance to antibiotics at an alarming rate, fueled by decades of overuse of the drugs in medicine and agriculture. Now researchers have developed a method that could slow the ...

Septicity occurs in sewage or sludge when the micro-organisms have utilised all the dissolved oxygen (DO) and any nitrates (or nitrites) that may be present. When anaerobic conditions have developed, ...