May 24, 2026 – Rensselaer County pays to get rid of contaminated sewage from its wastewater treatment plant. The cost is $66.30 per ton for chemically treated biosolids onsite. It’s $231.55 per ton for wet, unprocessed biosolids. Every two months, tons and tons are hauled away.
I work for an environmental group and there are a lot of concerns around landfills, but unfortunately right now, landfilling our sewage sludge, we believe, is our best option versus the direct contamination of our soil, farmland, and water from the land application.
-EANY’s Claire Walsh Winsler
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