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Biosolids and residuals Fact sheet on biosolids Production and marketing N-Viro™ Soil specifications and use Quality control Environmental management system Meeting standards

Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, WEP's largest plant, serves as the central biosolids processing facility for the other seven plants. It generates 150 tons of biosolids daily.

In the last five years an average of over 87% of all biosolids produced by Onondaga County have been recycled for beneficial use. In 2001, WEP recycled over 99% of the biosolids generated. This translates to 415,000 tons diverted from landfills

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We are in our eighth year of a ten-year contract with Waste Stream Environmental (WSE) for operation of a 240-ton/day beneficial-use processing facility for wastewater treatment plant biosolids. Since initial operation in June 1994, 415,000 tons of biosolids produced by WEP's treatment plants have been processed into a soil product. N-Viro™ Soil has primarily been used as an agricultural lime in the agricultural industry in twelve counties of central New York.

The 602,000 tons of product produced by WSE has been marketed by their affiliate company EarthBlends Inc., which is registered as an agricultural lime with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.

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