By Beau Hayhoe
Holt Journal staff writer
DELHI TOWNSHIP — The pungent smell of Delhi Township’s wastewater treatment plant spreads into the countryside.
The scent of treated liquid waste is unpleasant to some. But across the past decade, township officials have began looking past what the product smells like to what it could be used for in the future.
Officials began exploring the process of upgrading the township’s wastewater treatment processes in 2003, said Delhi Township Director of Public Services Sandra Diorka.
The township’s efforts led to the creation of a digestion process that turns human waste into high-quality liquid sludge for disposal on farmland.
With phase I complete, Delhi officials want to do more with the byproducts of the township’s toilets.
The project’s second phase would develop a sludge dewatering and solar drying process. This would allow the liquid waste to be converted into biosolids and sold as an alternative fuel, a move potentially leading to profits for the township.
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