
{"id":20287,"date":"2011-08-17T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20287"},"modified":"2011-08-17T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:11:05","slug":"owasa-report-on-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/08\/17\/owasa-report-on-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"OWASA report on recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From July 2010 to June 2011, OWASA treated and recycled 2.7 billion gallons of wastewater and 1,279 tons of biosolids in accordance with federal and state standards.<\/p>\n<p>OWASA surpassed the treated water-quality standards for the utility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant, including limits on bacteria, phosphorus, nitrogen and solids.<\/p>\n<p>Biosolids are the solids that are separated from wastewater, treated in a biological breakdown process and disinfected by heating them to 140 degrees. Biosolids are recycled on farmland to help grow crops for non-human consumption or are used in a composting process to make a soil additive for landscaping. OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biosolids surpass the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s standards for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exceptional Quality.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual report on wastewater is available on OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/owasa.org\/\">owasa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From July 2010 to June 2011, OWASA treated and recycled 2.7 billion gallons of wastewater and 1,279 tons of biosolids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20289,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions\/20289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}