The city reported a more than $2.7 million balance for contingencies that may arise from its $68 million project to close out ...

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 ...

Columbia and other cities across the United States have land-applied wastewater sludge to farms for decades as a way to reduce waste and offer free fertilizer to farmers. However, researchers have ...

A man standing in a laboratory, writing in his notebook. A team led by Case van Genuchten, seen here in in a laboratory in India, has found a way to extract metallic arsenic from wastewater sludge.

The United States generates seven million tons of sewage sludge annually, enough to fill 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. While a portion of this waste is repurposed for manure and other land ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Wastewater sludge hauling has tripled in price for the city of Kalamazoo since 2018, so the city is trying to find innovative solutions to reduce the financial burden. The city now ...

In the peaceful and serene rolling foothills of north Alabama, the old Hidden Valley dairy farm is now a poultry waste storage area. Tanker trucks unload a slurry of reeking goo taken from poultry ...

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A successful legal fight from residents banned sludge for two decades. The threat of a new legal fight is bringing it back.