Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized 30 clean water infrastructure projects for excellence and innovation within the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program.
Honored projects include large wastewater infrastructure projects to small decentralized and agriculture projects. Thirty projects by state or local governments, public utilities, and private entities were recognized by the 2018 PISCES program.
Dodge City adopted an innovative approach to processing their wastewater byproducts.
In recent years, the Dodge City South Wastewater Treatment Plant received an EPA grant towards a project to reuse 100 percent of its 1.7 billion gallons a year of treated effluent as irrigation for over 3,000 acres of agricultural fields, conserving groundwater for the public water supply.
This treatment process produced a significant amount of carbon dioxide and methane gas, which were then burned off in a flare.
This new project plans to clean and pressurize the biogas to high quality natural gas that can be used as fuel.
(Read more: News – The Hutchinson News)