Young’s Creek at Young’s Park on March 21. The area upstream of the Franklin Wastewater Treatment Plant was not affected by the sludge spill. The city of Franklin was fined $15,600 after 36,000 ...

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) represents a transformative approach in wastewater treatment by utilising dense, compact microbial aggregates capable of simultaneously removing organic carbon, nitrogen, ...

Sewage sludge dewaterability is a critical factor in wastewater treatment efficiency and cost‐reduction, as it directly impacts the volume of sludge requiring transportation, disposal, or further ...

The Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant is a pollution success story. Over the last several decades, it transformed Boston Harbor from a nationally embarrassing cesspool into a swimmable bay. The ...

Using sewage sludge – one of two end products from any wastewater treatment plant (the other is effluent) – as fertilizer on food crops is a hotly debated food safety issue, but only among a very ...

Researchers have developed a simplified, sustainable method of converting sewage sludge from wastewater treatment into high-value activated carbon that can be used in a wide range of industrial and ...

Fertilizer containing potentially unsafe levels of “forever chemicals” has been used around the country. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the past year, I’ve been reporting on how “forever chemicals,” a group of ...

Madison Village is buying a new piece of equipment to keep its wastewater treatment plant running properly. Village Council has approved an $8,642 purchase order for a close-coupled pump package ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge -- a by-product of wastewater treatment -- into green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for ...

Ray Dettmering didn’t think twice after a salesman knocked on his door a decade ago and offered the Will County farmer as much free fertilizer as he wanted. Instead of paying for nitrogen and other ...