What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

PFAS contamination is reshaping the long-standing practice of recycling wastewater sludge as biosolids fertilizer, raising ...

New research suggests that sewage sludge and wastewater treatment plants are major sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution. Waterkeeper Alliance, in partnership with local ...

WASHINGTON — What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers are struggling to advance legislation aimed at limiting the presence of toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge used as soil conditioner—a predominant source of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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