Full steam ahead for Ladysmith’s new $1.8M biosolids facility (pdf), 10 Mar 2018
“… Once inside, biosolids are placed into a 60 metre channel with wood chips and a giant automated mixing system takes over the heavy lifting of moving the material for the next 85 days.
“There’s not that many facilities using that turner technology,” Goodall noted.
Build on a concrete slab, one the important features of the facility is a leachate collection system that works to prevent any runoff which could harm surface water and groundwater.
There’s also very little waste involved in the whole process.
“We mix wood chips in with the biosolids and then they go through the channel and when it’s finished at the other end we put the material through a screener and any oversized material we reuse at the start of the process again,” Goodall said.
Ladysmith’s facility was also built to allow room for growth down the road, whether it’s accepting biosolids from other municipalities or marketing its compost similar to the Comox Valley Regional District with its SkyRocket product, or Kelowna’s OgoGrow. …”
Pilot project
In 2009, I spoke with someone and our councilor, Manno Theos, at the CVRD regarding this project and he told me they had heard the program wasn’t any good.
Progress Report – December 20, 2007
Microsoft Word – Pilot Project Survey results summary.doc
Things I have learned... 