It’s what led to a packed house at Monday night’s town council workshop. There’s a new proposal on the table to update and expand an existing sludge digester in town, and it has some people doing ...

Plans to expand a biosolids processing plant for sewage biosolids in Brunswick have alarmed residents who are still coping ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection is proposing a $50 million bond to help wastewater treatment facilities buy the costly equipment needed to reduce the volume of sewage sludge headed to ...

When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover ...

The digester would dry the sludge so that it the plant would produce just one load per week — and that material could be given away or even sold, because it would be less objectionable ...

"Sludge has no business being spread on any ... understand the contents and basis of the assessment." The anaerobic digesters at the Deer Island Water Treatment facility in Winthrop.

Initial estimates suggest a sludge dryer or digester can cost as much as $25 million, so the state bond money, if approved, would have to be coupled with a local match if DEP wants to help fund ...