Current Biosolids Challenges in Massachusetts
JOIN US for ONLINE for December’s Quarterly Meeting, December 4, 2024 from 8:30AM-12:00PM. 3.0 TCHs will be awarded.
We’ll be opening the meeting with training on Biosolids Reporting, led by Jake Nguyen of the US EPA. Jake will be joined by colleagues Seth Draper and Carey Johnston. Did you know 85 Massachusetts facilities are required to fill out this form, that about half of us fill it out wrong, and 12 of us don’t bother to submit it at all? The data you supply (and the data that’s missing) will shape policy and regulation we all have to cope with.
Woodard & Curran’s Julia Wahl will provide insight into the status of federal PFAS regulation, as well as what your colleagues in other regions are dealing with at the state level. The biosolids community becomes more interconnected by the day, as we face emerging rules of concern, as well as compounds. Insight in to our neighbors’ situations will help us prepare for a rapidly changing landscape.
Lastly, Bill Brower of Brown and Caldwell will discuss part 1 of the sludge survey, released on October 23 on the MADEP website. The study looks at the current and near-term destinations of MA sludge, surveying wastewater treatment plants, sludge disposal facilities, and septage disposal facilities to determine volume of sludge and septage produced in MA currently and in five years ,the cost of sludge/septage disposal currently and in five years, and the capacity of sludge/septage disposal options. View Flyer >>