In north central Utah’s desert climate, water is scarce and sunlight abundant. The Tooele City Water Reclamation Facility helps ease the first condition and takes full advantage of the second.The plant, serving a community of 32,000 about 30 miles west of Salt Lake City, delivers reclaimed water to a private golf course and uses the sun to help make a Class A biosolids product that fertilizes city parks and a city-owned golf course.The public receives both products enthusiastically, most notably the biosolids, produced in a solar-heated drying system. “People are really glad to see us doing something that is fiscally responsible
A Sunny Outlook
A Utah city turns to renewable energy as part of an operation that brings the liquid and solids sides of treatment full circle.
Mar 17, 2014
| by Ted J. Rulseh |
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