The Beijing Drainage Group plans to achieve electricity self-sufficiency at one of its sewage treatment plants in the capital as it works toward carbon neutral operations, the State-owned company has announced. The plan has proved to be feasible following the long-term operation of a facility for disposing of sewage sludge in the company's Gaoantun sewage treatment plant in the capital's …
At Nigambodh Ghat, the biggest cremation facility in the city on the banks of the Yamuna, the receding water level of the river has left behind a new set of problems — damaged equipment, non-functional hearse vans, missing records, and thick sludge covering the entire complex. “Three jetting machines have also been put to use to clean the layers of …
Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. “When the southwest corner of Tulare Lake floods, thousands of tons of L.A. County sewage sludge, containing toxic heavy metals, will become part of the mix in the newly formed lake,” said Tom Frantz, a retired schoolteacher and environmental …
Assistant General Manager Rob Thompson on Wednesday by a trickling filter at O.C. Sanitation officials have partnered with North Carolina-based cleantech company 374Water to bring a supercritical water oxidation unit, AirSCWO, capable of treating up to 6 tons of wet sludge per day, to the Fountain Valley facility as part of a demonstration project. “We’re trying to work our way …