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Aberdeen
Alderwood
Water District
Anacortes
Arlington
The City of Arlington operates an aerated static pile compost facility producing 750 dry tons or 4250 yards of Class A EQ compost. A Class B lime stabilized biosolid for land application is also produced.
Asotin
Bainbridge
Island
Bellingham
Bingen
The City of Bingen is located on the Columbia River, 60 miles
east of Vancouver, Washington, and is the heart of windsurfing.
A new treatment plant serves approximately 3,000 people from the
cities of Bingen and White Salmon, Washington. The treatment plant
consists of oxidation ditches, aerobic digesters, a biosolids
centrifuge (Sherples), and U.V. Biosolids are applied to hayfields.
Birch Bay
Water & Sewer District #8
Blaine
Bremerton
The City of Bremerton operates one of the longest running forest
application programs in Washington and has utilized 100% of its biosolids on City-owned forest land since 1992. Bremerton currently permits
800 arcres of its own forest lands as part of its overall forest
management program. Its wastewater treatment facility provides
sanitary service to approximately 35,000 customers and produces
700 dry tons per year of a Class B biosolids product. The present
process includes sedimentation, anaerobic digestion and biosolids
reuse. The cost of the biosolids operation from stabilization
to reuse is $275.00 per dry ton of solids.
Brewster
Bridgeport
The City of Bridgeport is located along the Columbia River downstream
from Chief Joseph Dam. Its treatment facilities serve a population
of approximately 2000 and produce 27 dry tons per year of biosolids.
The biosolids are dewatered, then air dried, producing a Class
B product that is then applied to wheat fields.
Buckley
Burlington
Camas
Castle Rock
Centralia
The
City of Centralia, Washington, is located along the Interstate-5
corridor, halfway between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon,
and is in the center of the Chehalis River Valley. The Centralia WWTP is an activated sludge plant that uses lime pasteurization to produce Class A biosolids. cityutil@localaccess.com
Chehalis
The City of Chehalis, Washington, is located on Interstate 5,
halfway between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The
wastewater treatment plant serves a population of approximately
7,500 in the cities of Chehalis and Napavine and a portion of
unincorporated Lewis County. Two-stage anaerobic sludge digestion
and covered drying beds enable the facility to produce approximately
100 dry metric tons of Class A biosolids annually. The biosolids
are land applied by local landowners for beneficial reuse.
Chelan
Cheney
Clark County
Public Works
The Salmon Creek Treatment Plant is located in the Felida area
of Clark County, Washington, about five miles northwest of Vancouver.
We operate an 11.3 MGD activiated sludge facility producing about
650 dry metric tons of Class B biosolids annually. Biosolids are
land applied with a side-slinger for silage crop utilization.
http://www.co.clark.wa.us/
Clarkston
College Place
Coulee Dam
Coupeville
Dayton
Douglas County
Sewer District #1
Duvall
Eastsound
Sewer & Water District
eastsoundsewer@rockisland.com
Ellensburg
Enumclaw
Enumclaw is located in Western Washington along Highway 410 at
the foot of Mount Rainier. It serves a population of approximately
11,000 and produces 168 dry metric tons of biosolids per year.
Land application of a Class B product is Enumclaw's primary beneficial
use of biosolids. Enumclaw is an original member of the Northwest
Biosolids Management Association. 1979 RBC treatment currently under construction to switch to activated sludge.
Everett
Everson
Ferndale
Forks
Friday Harbor
Gig Harbor
Grand Coulee
Grandview
Granite Falls
Hoquiam
Island County
Located on the largest island in the continental U.S. about 1.5hrs
north of Seattle by ferry or bridge, Island County's unique Whidbey
Island Septage Treatment facility at Coupeville receives residential
septage from some 20,000 households from UN-incorporated areas
plus partially treated biosolids from local WWTPs. This aerobic
treatment facility is one of the only of its kind in the US. The
plant processes septage to a Class B biosolids for beneficial
use on forest and mixed grass hay crops on DOE-permitted application
sites.
daveb@co.island.wa.us
Kalama
Karcher Creek
Sewer District
Kennewick
The City of Kennewick is located in Southeast Washington State
near the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers and the Horse
Heaven Hills. Treatment facilities serve an equivalent population
of 52,500 people and produce about 525 dry tons of biosolids annually.
Land application of biosolids produced by facultative anaerobic
lagoon treatment was last undertaken in 1991.
michael-smith@ci.kennewick.wa.us
King County
Dept. of Natural Resources & Parks
King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP) provides
wastewater treatment for about 1.4 million people in the greater
Seattle metropolitan area. Average flows are 180 million gallons
per day, generating about 110,000 wet tons of Class B biosolids
(27,500 dry tons) annually. King County biosolids are recycled
on dryland wheat, and other agricultural crops in Douglas and
Yakima counties, as well as on public and private forestlands
in King County. A portion of the county's biosolids are used by
GroCo, Inc. to make a Class A compost that is marketed to landscapers
and the general public.
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/biosolids/
greg.bush@metrokc.gov
roberta.king@metrokc.gov
peggy.leonard@metrokc.gov
Kitsap County
Public Works
Kitsap County
Public Works Wastewater Division includes the Central Kitsap WWTP,
Suquamish WWTP, Kingston WWTP and the Manchester WWTP. Our facilities produce about 1000 dry tons/year of dry Class B biosolids.
La Conner
Lakehaven
Utility District
The Lakehaven Utility District, located between Seattle and Tacoma,
Washington, operates the Lakota and Redondo wastewater treatment
facilities, providing sewer service to the City of Federal Way's
population of 100,000. The combined annual biosolids production
of 800 dry tons is trucked to Northwest Cascade in Puyallup, Washington,
where a Class A compost is produced and made available to residents
of Federal Way through a district delivery program.
Langley
Leavenworth
Liberty Lake
Sewer District
Lynden
The City of Lynden is located in northern Whatcom County, near
the Canadian border.Treatment facilities serve a population of
approximately 9,900 and produce 600 dry tons of biosolids annually.
Biosolids are composted to produce a Class A product that is made
available to residents of Lynden and sold to local nurseries.
The completion of a recent plant upgrade included the construction
of two aerobic digesters to produce a Class B product for recycling
on soil improvement projects.
eleyj@lyndenwa.org
Mabton
Marysville
Midway Sewer
District
Midway Sewer District operates a wastewater treatment facility rated at 9 MGD that serves portions of Des Moines, SeaTac, Kent, Federal Way, Normandy Park, Burien and the POS SeaTac airport.
www.midwaysewer.org
Monroe
Mount Rainier
National Park
Mount Vernon
The City of Mount Vernon is located in the lower Skagit River
valley. Its treatment facilities serve a population of 28,000
and produce 460 dry tons per year of biosolids. Anaerobically
digested biosolids are belt pressed and sent to Boulder Park Inc.
Soil Improvement Project in Douglas County. There is very limited
application of biosolids to local sites. The product is Class
B, using 40 CFR Part 503 pathogen criteria.
http://www.mount-vernon.wa.us/
wwtp@sos.net
Mukilteo
Water District
Newport
North Bend
Oak Harbor
The City of Oak Harbor Wastewater Treatment Facilities are located
on northern Whidbey Island in the heart of Puget Sound. The treatment
facilities serve an approximate population of 19,000 and produce
68 tons of biosolids per year. The anaerobic digestion process
is used and produces a Class B product suitable for agricultural
land application. Present application is to forestland. Suitable
sites are difficult to come by, due to water table constraints
and the Island's water supply being a sole source aquifer.
oakharbr@whidbey.net
Okanogan
Olympia
Olympic View
Water & Sewer District
Olympus Terrace
Sewer District
Omak
Pacific Beach
Sewer District
Pasco
Pateros
Pierce County
Public Works & Utilities
Pierce County, Washington, operates the Chambers Creek Regional
Wastewater Treatment Plant, an 18 million gallon per day activated
sludge plant with biological nutrient removal. The plant serves
a population of 162,000 in areas south and east of Tacoma. Its
1400 dry tons of Class B biosolids are applied to agricultural
land, but a facility is being built that will produce Class A
biosolids compost that will be utilized to reclaim a 640 acre
gravel mine.
Website
rlowe@co.pierce.wa.us
Pomeroy
Port Angeles
Port Townsend
The City of Port Townsend is located on the beautiful Olympic
Peninsula in Washington State. Its treatment facilities serve
a population of 8100 and produce approximately 130 dry tons per
year of biosolids. The City operates its own composting facility
and uses the aerated static pile process incorporating biosolids,
septage and yard waste to produce a Class A compost. The compost
demand exceeds the City's supply.
http://www.ci.port-townsend.wa.us/
jmerchant@ci.port-townsend.wa.us
Prosser
Pullman
The City of Pullman, Washington is located on the far eastern
side of the state in an agricultural region called the Palouse.
It is the home of Washington State University. Its treatment facilities
serve a population of approximately 26,000 (which includes the
University) and produce 580 dry tons of anaerobically digested
Class B biosolids per year. All biosolids are currently land applied
to farmland used to grow wheat, peas and barley.
Puyallup
The City of Puyallup, Washington, is located in a valley between
Seattle and Tacoma. Puyallup's treatment facility serves a population
of 25,000 and produces 250 dry tons per year of biosolids. Puyallup
is the home of the sixth largest fair in the United States, which
has over 1.5 million visitors per year.
puywpcp@frugal.com
Raymond
Richland
The
Richland wastewater plant is a complete mix, activated sludge
secondary treatment facility treating approximately 6.5 MGD. Solids
treatment consists of 2 anaerobic digesters, 2 belt-presses, and
land reclamation use of approximately 800 dry tons/ year of Class
B biosolids.
rcarlson@ci.richland.wa.us
Ritzville
Sedro-Woolley
Selah
Sequim
http://www.ci.sequim.wa.us/
Shelton
Skagit County
Sewer District #2
Snohomish
Snoqualmie
Pass Sewer District
South Bend
South Prairie
Southwest
Suburban
Spokane
The
City of Spokane is located in central eastern Washington, next
to the Idaho border. Its treatment facilities serve a population
of 215,000 and produce approximately 7,000 dry tons of biosolids
per year. The Class B biosolids are dewatered with belt filter
presses and land applied to farms within 25 miles of the treatment
facility. The current demand for Spokane's biosolids exceeds the
supply.
sawwtp@on-ramp.ior.com
Spokane County
Spokane County
is currently in the process of planning a new water reclamation
facility to serve 35,000 customers. After start-up in 2011, it
should produce about 500 dry tons of biosolids per year.
http://www.spokanecounty.org/utilities
St. John
Stevens Pass
Sewer District
Group III, tertiary, extended aeration.
Sultan
Sumas
Sumner
Sunland Water
District
Sunnyside
Tacoma
The
City of Tacoma's Central Wastewater Plant is a 38 million gallon
per day high purity oxygen secondary treatment plant that uses
the dual digestion process to produce an Exceptional Quality Class
A biosolids. Tacoma makes several products from this process,
one of which is Tagro Mix. Fifty percent of Tacoma's biosolids
(2000 dry tons per year) goes into Tagro Mix, which is used throughout
the city.
http://www.cityoftacoma.org/
http://www.tagro.com/
dthompso@cityoftacoma.org
Three Rivers
Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant
(fomerly Cowlitz Water Pollution Control)
Three Rivers Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant serves the cities
of Longview & Kelso, Beacon Hill Sewer District and portions
of Cowlitz County. The facility is making the transition from heat treatment to lime pasteurization for biosolids. Duane Leaf, leaf@cowlitz-wpc.org
Thurston
County Water & Waste Management
Vancouver
City of Vancouver
providing full service water supply and distribution/ wastewater
collection and treatment at two secondary treatment plants with
activated sludge, UV disinfection, incineration of residual solids.
http://www.ci.vancouver.wa.us/
Walla Walla
Warden
Washington
Correction Center
Washougal
The City of Washougal is located on the north shore of the Columbia
River at the west end of the Columbia Gorge Scenic Area. Washougal's
treatment facility serves a population of 7188 and produces 200
dry tons per year of biosolids. Approximately 170 dry tons per
year are applied to agricultural land near the treatment plant.
Winlock
Woodland
Yakima
The
City of Yakima is located just east of the Cascade Mountains in
Central Washington. Its treatment facilities serve over 60,000
residents and produce approximately 1,500 dry tons of Class B
biosolids per year. Composting trials have been conducted using
open windrow and containerized processes. The demand for the City
of Yakima's Class B biosolids currently meets its production.
yakww@televar.com
Yakima County
Public Works
Zillah
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Boise
The City of Boise's wastewater treatment facilities serve
a population of approximately 220,000. Current production rates are 3000 to 4000
dry tons per year of biosolids. The City of Boise owns and operates a 4000 acre farm where Class B biosolids are benefically reused to grow forage and small grain crops. The City's wastewater treatment plants utilize conventional and secondary treatment processes. Sludge produced in the process is stabilized by anaerobic digestion, dewatered and delivered to the farm by truck.
bkresge@pobox.ci.boise.id.us
Couer D'Alene
Successful single source bulking agent/biosolids facility since
1988. Wholesale manufacturer of Registered Trademark Couer d'Green
Compost.
Grangeville
The City of Grangeville, Idaho, is located on the Camas Prairie,
near the Bitterroot Mountains of North Central Idaho. Grangeville's
treatment facilities serve a population of 3200 and produce 47
dry tons per year of biosolids. Fifty percent is composted with
yard waste for a Class A product while 50 percent is Class B and
land applied to hay ground.
http://www.w-ww.com/plants/usa/idaho/grangeville/
hipitybob@camasnet.com
or selfish@camasnet.com
Lewiston
Meridian
Nampa
Pocatello
The
City of Pocatello, Idaho, is located in the southeastern part
of the state. Pocatello's Water Pollution Control Department serves
a population of 65,000 and is committed to the recycling and reuse
of our natural resources through innovative projects that reclaim
water and wastewater contaminants. Examples are utilization of
biosolids for agricultural soil enhancement and fertilization
on City-owned lands, the cogeneration and production of electricity
from methane gas and the irrigation of agricultural crops with
reclaimed wastewater.
http://www.pocatello.us/
bhokanson@pocatello.us
Sandpoint
Twin Falls
Oregon
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Albany
The City of Albany has a population of 45,000, and is located
in the Willamette Valley approximately 70 miles south of Portland.
Albany owns and operates a wastewater treatment plant treating
about 6.5 million gallons per day dry weather flow, discharging
secondary treated effluent to the Willamette River. Biosolids
cake is produced using belt filter presses, and approximately
675 dry tons of Class B biosolids are applied to mainly grass
seed fields during dry weather months. The
City of Albany has been an active participant in the National
Biosolids Partnership's Environmental Management System (EMS)
program for biosolids. In May, 2006, the City became certified
by the National Biosolids Partnership for their EMS for biosolids
and continues to adhere to the Partnership's commitment to “continual
improvement” for biosolids management.
http://www.cityofalbany.net/biosolids
Ashland
Clackamas
County Water Environment Services
Water Environment Services is a Department of Clackamas County.
Our organization consists of four NPDES permitted WWTPs (Kellogg,
Tri-City, Hoodland & Boring). Kellogg and Tri-City have an
average flow of 8,000,000 MGD and are secondary treatment with
anaerobic digestion. The Kellogg plant has a 12,000,000-Gallon
Liquid Biosolids Program annually and the Tri-City plant has a
Cake Biosolids Program consisting of about 1200 dry tons annually.
The Hoodland treatment plant is a secondary treatment plant with
aerobic digestion and produces about 400,000 gallons of liquid
annually. The Wastewater Treatment Facility in Boring has a 0.021
MGD flow and consists of a Primary and Secondary Lagoon and Sand
Filters. We also have a WPCF permitted Service District that serves
26 single family residences and consist of three Septic Tanks
and a Large Sand Filter.
Clean Water
Services of Washington County
Clean Water Services is the sanitary sewer utility for 12 cities
in the urban portions of the Tualatin River Basin in Washington
County, Oregon. USA operates four wastewater treatment facilities
serving 380,000 residents. USA's facilities produce 25 dry tons
of biosolids a day. Nearly 85 percent of the biosolids are applied
to arid lands in eastern Oregon and nine percent are recycled
onto local agricultural sites. The balance is composted and sold
as a Class A product for landscaping and home gardening.
Eugene
The Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) provides
wastewater services to Eugene, Springfield and Lane County. In
accordance with an inter-governmental agreement, the MWMC contracts
with Eugene and Springfield to provide administration and operation
of the regional facilities, while the City of Springfield provides
the administrative support to the Regional Wastewater Program.
The regional system includes the 49 mgd Water Pollution Control
Facility, Biosolids Management Facility (BMF), Biocycle Farm,
Seasonal Industrial Waste Facility (SIW), interceptor lines, force
mains, and pump stations. The 154-acre Biosolids Management Facility
processes and recycles over 5,000 dry tons of biosolids each year.
Biocycle Farm is a 596-acre hybrid poplar plantation that will
help recycle biosolids and reclaimed water. The 250-acre SIW is
an active farming operation that is being converted to utilize
reclaimed water for crop irrigation. The MWMC also operates a
state required Industrial Pretreatment Program to work with commercial/industrial
users to control industry wastewater entering the system.
Gresham
The City of Gresham wastewater services division serves a population
of 110,000 people in the cities of Gresham, Fairview and Wood
Village. The biosolids program consists of land application of
dewatered biosolids to agricultural land.
Hermiston
The City of Hermiston
is located in Northeast Oregon and serves a population of 15,400.
We produce approximately 75 dry tons of biosolids a year, which
is applied to agricultural land.
Hood River
Received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2002 Biosolids
Exemplary Management Award, taking national First Place for small
operating plant.
Juniper Utility
Company
Lincoln City
Madras
The
City of Madras is located in beautiful central Oregon. The treatment
facility serves a population of 5,500. The City produces 5.8 dry
tons per year of biosolids which is spread on City-owned farmland.
kbedell@mail.bendnet.com
McMinnville
The Water Reclamation Facility for the City of McMinnville, Oregon,
is a state-of-the-art facility serving a community of 22,000.
Class A biosolids are processed with Autothermal Thermophilic
Aerobic Digesters and applied to surrounding agricultural lands
in a liquid form. The city is located in the Willamette Valley
and discharges treated effluent to the South Yamhill River.
North Bend
The City of North Bend is located on the southern Oregon coast.
The facility consists of a 2 mgd activated sludge plant, aerobic
digestion and facultative sludge lagoon. Biosolids are applied
to forest land and graze land.
Oak Lodge
Sanitary District
Pacific City
Sanitary District
Pendleton
Portland
The
City of Portland is located at the confluence of the Columbia
and Willamette Rivers in northwestern Oregon approximately 60
miles east of the Pacific Ocean. Two wastewater treatment facilities
are operated within Portland's 95,000-acre service boundary. They
receive flow from a population equivalent of approximately 500,000.
Portland's treatment facilities generate about 20,000 dry tons
of biosolids (approximately 42 percent of the biosolids produced
in Oregon) annually. Roughly 85 percent of the biosolids (17,000
dry tons) generated yearly are beneficially land applied on rangeland
in northeastern Oregon as a dewatered Class B cake and 15 percent
(3,000 dry tons) of the biosolids are processed through a large
within-vessel composting system, producing a Class A product which
is marketed in the Portland metropolitan area. Demand for the
City's Class A and B biosolids products exceeds production levels.
Redmond
Riddle
The City of Riddle is a small mill town located in Douglas County,
Oregon. Plant staff are actively engaged in developing a program
for utilization of biosolids on Bureau of Land Management and
Forest Service lands from all county-wide treatment plants. Past
and future biosolids projects include mine reclamation, with current
efforts directed at Glenbrook Nickel, the country's only operating
nickel mine.
Salem
The City of Salem
Oregon has owned and operated the Willow Lake Water Pollution
Control Facility (WLWPCF) since it was constructed in 1963. The
wastewater treatment facility's anaerobic digesters produce Class
B biosolids. The Biogro Program has managed the biosolids beneficial
reuse program for more than 35 years. Currently, the Biogro Program
manages and operates municipal staff and equipment, oversees reporting
and documentation requirements, as well as numerous transport
and application service contracts. Presently, Biogro utilizes
local, privately owned application sites for spring and summer
application of cake and liquid biosolids products. During the
winter, biosolids cake is transported to Madison Ranch, near Hermiston,
Oregon for reuse on pasture land leased by the City of Salem.
In 2004, the Biogro Program's Annual Report to the Dept. of Env.
Quality (DEQ) reported all biosolids produced were appled on beneficial
reuse sites. The facility produced 3,643 dry tons and appled to
1,696 acres.
http://www.cityofsalem.net/~envserv/
Stayton
Toledo
Umatilla
Wilsonville
Winston
Woodburn
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City of Abbotsford
The City of Abbotsford operates the Joint Abbotsford - Mission
Environmental System (J.A.M.E.S.) Water Pollution Control Centre.
The secondary wastewater treatment plant produces approximately
8000 wet tonne per year of a Class A dewatered biosolids product.
Biosolids produced by the J.A.M.E.S. Centre is used in mine reclamation,
the fertilization of two poplar stands, and soil production (Val-E-Gro™)
for distribution in wholesale bulk, local retail or other markets.
Program diversification is paramount in the City of Abbotsford's
biosolids management plan. The development of biosolids based
products (topsoil) has been the primary focus for reducing program
costs and increasing program diversification. Efforts to develop
a biosolids based soil have been ongoing since the late 1990's.
Other biosolids based products are being developed and industry
tested.
http://www.val-e-gro.com
Capital Regional
District
Greater Vancouver
Regional District
The
Greater Vancouver Regional District operates five wastewater facilities
serving a population of 2 million in the lower Fraser Valley region
of British Columbia. The GVRD's Nutrigor Program recycles biosolids
for land reclamation at mine sites, gravel pits, and landfills
as well as for fertilization at ranches and tree plantations.
http://www.nutrifor.com/
Kelowna
The City of Kelowna composts biosolids to produce a high-grade
soil amendment which is locally in high demand.
bcavers@city.kelowna.bc.ca
Regional
District of Comox-Strathcona
1000 dry tonnes/ year totally enclosed aerated static pile
compost facility with biofilters for odour control opens February
2003.
gfaris@rcds.bc.ca
Regional
District of Nanaimo
Resort Municipality
of Whistler
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