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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - La Crosse’s wastewater treatment plant finished a new building and other equipment as part of an effort to help the environment and the community. Objectives for the project included meeting low level phosphorus compliance, reducing the biosolid footprint, enhancing anaerobic digestion, and creating electricity from burning methane gas. “We’re meeting that new limit, currently, of less than point one milligrams per liter. We meet that one point milligram per liter limit, and we average around point zero seven parts per million, almost non-detect for phosphorous going into the Mississippi River,” La Crosse Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent Jared Greeno explains. "We have the ability to make our own electricity to be more sustainable. Instead of flaring off methane gas, we’ll burn that methane to produce electricity, hot water, and heat to do things more environmentally friendly and more efficiently to conserve electricity.” Plant officials say it’s huge to reach the end of a $68 million project that began its planning back in 2015.
