The City and Borough of Juneau pays about $1.4 million a year to ship containers full of biosolids — a byproduct left behind after sewage is treated — to a landfill in Oregon.
Jeremy Hsieh, KTOOSenior wastewater operator Ryan Hosman shows what microbes that consume sewage look like after they’ve been partially dewatered through a belt filter press at the Mendenhall Wastewater Treatment Plant in Juneau on March 23, 2021. They go through a dryer to further reduce their volume and become biosolids.
After sewage is treated in Juneau, there’s a byproduct left behind known as “biosolids.” And the City and Borough of Juneau pays about $1.4 million a year to ship containers full of it to a landfill in Oregon. City officials say that buying new equipment to crush these cakey biosolids down before shipping them couldThe city pays for shipping per container, and that cost has been going up, according to Denise Koch, the city’s deputy director of Engineering and Public Works.
“We really need to – you know, I use the technical term, ‘pack it in,'” Koch told the Juneau Assembly’s Public Works and Facilities Committee on Monday. “We really want to get more volume into each conex because it’s so expensive to ship those conexes.”Koch’s department is asking the Juneau Assembly to spend $2.5 million of wastewater user fees to buy a crusher. She estimates it would pay for itself in about two and a half years.
The Committee gave the concept the thumbs up. The full Assembly must hold a public hearing and vote on an ordinance to authorize the spending. The city has spent tens of millions of dollars over the last 12 years disposing of its treated sewage. It used to burn what was leftover, but its
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