Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kennewick residents living downwind of the city’s sewer treatment facility will get some much-needed relief thanks to a ...

SELAH, Wash. - The biosolids that come out of Selah's wastewater treatment facility aren't the damp, loamy clumps found in Yakima. They are black, bone dry and sift through the hand like a air-gun ...

Most people don’t like to think about what happens to human waste once it’s flushed away but for Bryan Clor and others working on the receiving end at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) it’s a ...

Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby neighbors to toxic "forever" chemicals, a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft risk assessment says.

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...