This time, there was no foul odour over North Battleford from a biofertilizer application near the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Last fall, an attempt to inject biofertilizer from the Wastewater Treatment Plant into soil in a nearby field went horribly wrong, as odour from the application ended up blowing all over the Battlefords.
The process was repeated this spring, but this time when the 3,500 cubic meters of biofertilizer were transported and injected, there was no problem.
“The biofertilizer was injected about six inches deep into the soil and we are very pleased to see the process being successful and odourless this time,” says Cliff Dyck, foreman at the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
“We will be doing a second application in the fall of this year and then eventually switch to an annual application.”
The new biosolids management system was developed by Lystek International Inc. converts biosolids and produces about 5,000 cubic meters of commercial fertilizer per year. The system also diverted over 6,700 tonnes of Class B biosolids from the Waste Management Facility, where the biosolids had been sent prior to Dec. 2014.
North Battleford was the first municipality in Western Canada to adopt and successfully implement the Lystek system. The City received the 2015 CAMA Environment Award in the under 20,000 Population Category for adopting the system.
