Most of us take for granted all that is involved in bringing potable water to our home, to where we work, in fact to an place you can turn the spigot and out comes water. We give even less thought to what happens to whatever ends up going down the drain and into a community's sewerage system. Carlisle, a community of 20,000 residents, is located in south central Pennsylvania. When it comes to sludge disposal from our sewage treatment facility, we are fortunate to be surrounded by fertile farmlands of the Susquehanna Valley.
Incinerating sludge is expensive.
It is also costly and wasteful to bury it in landfills. Instead we apply the sludge as a fertilizer on fields. This process is not only helpful to the agriculture community, but this form of recycling saves on disposal costs. Once a time consuming process, the Department of Environmental Protection has improved the procedure for approving farm fields for sludge application. Staff at our Carlisle facility will be happy to discuss the process with you.