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Council advances $29 million wastewater plan to reduce biosolids and ease hauling costs
Summary
City staff told Saginaw City Council it seeks a $29 million amendment to its Clean Water State Revolving Fund plan to switch to a thermochemical hydrolysis process that could cut biosolids volume by up to half and eliminate lime treatment; council adopted the amendment and asked staff to pursue funding details and alternatives for solids disposal.
Saginaw City Council voted to adopt a final project-plan amendment that updates the city's Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) application and increases the proposed wastewater biosolids project to roughly $29 million.
At a public hearing, a city presentation explained that the current lime-based solids process is aging, lacks redundancy and produces volumes that are increasingly costly to haul and manage. The staff-recommended change would replace the existing approach with a thermochemical…
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