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Biosolids - A Valuable Resource in Every Community
Local Sustainability
Biosolids are nutrient-rich organic byproducts from a water resource recovery facility (WRRF). Biosolids have been treated and tested to meet strict federal and state standards for use as fertilizers and soil amendments. Biosolids enhance soil health by providing sustainable plant nutrients and organic matter to soils from your local WRRF.
The benefits of biosolids don't stop there:
- Provides primary nutrients; slow release nitrogen, phosphorus
- Provides secondary nutrients; sulfur, iron, calcium, magnesium, and zinc
- Improves plant growth and crop yields
- Reduces soil erosion; biosolids-enriched soil encourages thick vegetation and binds water to the soil
- Improves ecosystems; provides nourishment for beneficial organisms that are essential for productive soils
- Improves drought resistance; organic matter in biosolids increase water retention in soils
- Cost effective local alternative to chemical fertilizer
Why Land Application is Essential
Sure, you can send biosolids to landfill but did you know landfills have limited capacity due to permit restrictions, safety concerns and overall shrinking landfill space?! By keeping biosolids valuable nutrients out of landfill and land applying them back into the soils, it helps reduce methane generation and biosolids increase carbon sequestration.
You Flushed The Toilet, Now What!?
Water Resource Reclamation Facilities (WRRF) play an important part in providing a public health service by cleaning water! These facilities separate the solids and water and are further treated so both can be used once again by you. When the Clean Water Act was created, these facilities played a critical part is cleaning up water by ending ocean disposal. Without WRRFs and land application of biosolids, managing our daily flush would have drastic challenging consequences.