PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 31, 2023
The biosolids facility planned for Norridgewock will help alleviate the immediate concern of biosolids disposal. However, the biosolids disposal crisis is driven primarily by PFAS contamination. We have a biosolids disposal crisis because we have a PFAS crisis. This new facility may buy us a little more time, but it does not solve either problem. When will the state invest in technology to remove PFAS from the cycle? The technology exists to effectively destroy common PFAS compounds and use the waste product of that destruction process to capture more PFAS; small municipal plants cannot afford that. We need investments in these technologies to bring them into Maine, optimize them and make them more affordable and accessible to our communities. ~ Jeanee Dudley, Woodard & Curran consultants and producer of “Disrupting PFAS” podcast about emerging technologies that detect, sequester and destroy PFAS