Already accepting organic waste from industrial and municipal sources, and with plans to receive future additional waste streams, DTMA has a long-term vision to recover and reuse resources, reduce landfill waste, and generate alternate revenue sources to lessen the financial burden to customers.
“This major investment aligns with our mission to provide a cost-effective public service to protect and enhance the water environment and quality of life for our community,” says William Rehkop, DTMA’s executive director. “By implementing self-sustaining facility improvements and expanding our hauled waste program, the authority has generated alternate revenue sources which have significantly subsidized operation and maintenance costs to benefit our customers.”
Brown and Caldwell is providing construction management, design services, and permitting to accommodate the new system and development of a biosolids receiving facility at the plant. Once operational, the FLG system will process higher amounts of biosolids into renewable thermal energy, biochar, and concentrated minerals, thus keeping biosolids out of landfill and creating a sustainable fuel source.
“We congratulate DTMA for their visionary approach to recovering resources and reducing environmental impacts,” says Colin O’Brien, Brown and Caldwell project manager. “Our team is honored to help transform the facility and position DTMA as a waste-to-energy leader at a time when our industry seeks innovative ways to manage biosolids.”
