Wastewater Utilities Ask EPA To Broaden Effluent Treatment Plants Review

Municipal wastewater utilities are asking EPA to broaden its planned review of centralized waste treatment (CWT) plants that accept wastewater from oil and gas facilities to include all CWTs, saying that some treatment plants have inadequately characterized and treated wastewater from other sectors and created problems for the utilities. Some publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) -- municipal treatment plants -- “have experienced problems related to waste from CWTs, resulting from inadequate characterization and treatment of the wastes received at the...