August 2, 2008--City project explores benefits of sludge (Pueblo Chieftain)
Every year the city of Pueblo ships about 4,000 tons of sludge from its wastewater treatment plant to the dump. It's the only place the stuff can go, but the city, along with the Gaia Institute's Happy Worm Herders program, is hoping that a pilot program currently under way will change that. ‘If everything works out well, it could reduce the biosolids we have to dump by 80 percent,’ said City Wastewater Director Gene Michael.
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