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Decision Date: 5/3/2006
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| Status: Approved |
B&G Farms |
Application Number: BUD-SA-06-05 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
Mint waste, which is the vegetative material left over after the mint oils have been extracted from harvested plants through a steam distillation process. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
Soil Amendment to add tilth & water holding capacity to soils. |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be received no later than March 20, 2006 |
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Decision Date: 10/16/2003
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| Status: Approved |
City of Cashmere |
Application Number: BUD-SA-03-02 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
The City of Cashmere has applied to the Department of Ecology for a BUD for distribution of dried waste activated sludge as a soil amendment. The waste water pre-treatment facility is associated with Tree Top, Inc.’s Cashmere fruit processing plant. Sugars and fruit solids in process waste water are converted to microorganisms in an anaerobic process. The microbial solids are settled from effluent and periodically removed from the settling clarifiers during normal maintenance. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
The applicant suggests that, as a soil amendment, the sludge is useful in providing a slow-release low-level source of organic nitrogen, adds organic material to clay or sandy soils which aids in moisture retention and overall soil tilth, and has low odor and metals levels. |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be received in writing by September 1, 2003 |
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Decision Date: 3/19/2006
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| Status: Approved |
City of Quincy |
Application Number: BUD-SA-05-04 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
Sludge from treatment lagoon treating waste water from three food processing plants in Quincy. No domestic sewage. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
Sludge is proposed to be used on crop fields in Grant County for soil tilth, water holding capacity, added organic content and nutrient value. Applicant has chosen to self-impose limiting distribution to fields in Grant County Washington in its proposal. |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be postmarked no later than January 27, 2006 |
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Decision Date: 12/22/2008
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| Status: Approved |
Hyer Farms |
Application Number: BUD-SA-08-06 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
Hyer Farms, of Moses Lake Washington, has applied to Ecology for a BUD to allow land application of silage to agricultural land under the company’s control. Hyer Farms processes vegetable matter from a local food processor into silage. An organic “tarp” develops during the ensiling process that is removed before silage is fed to livestock. It is land application of the vegetative materials in the “tarp” that is under consideration with this BUD proposal. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
Nutrient value, replacement of organic matter to soils |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be received by November 7, 2008 |
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Decision Date: 8/14/2003
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| Status: Approved |
Quincy Black Sands, LLC |
Application Number: BUD-NSA-03-01 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
Agricultural wastes including wheat straw, chicken manure,canola meal, cotton seed meal combined with commercial urea and gypsum. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
Ingredients will be combined and composted to produce mushroom substrate for distribution to mushroom growers in Washington State. The Beneficial Use Determination applies only to the distribution of the substrate. The compost facility will operate under a local solid waste permit issued by the Grant County Health District. |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be received in writing by June 30, 2003 |
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Decision Date: 9/15/2003
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| Status: Approved |
Tree Top, Inc. |
Application Number: BUD-SA-03-03 |
Kinds of Waste to be Considered:
Tree Top, Inc. has applied to the Department of Ecology for a BUD for distribution of dried waste activated sludge as a soil amendment. The waste water treatment facility is associated with Tree Top's Wenatchee fruit processing plant. Sugars and fruit solids in process waste water are converted to microorganisms in an aerobic process. The microbial solids are settled from effluent and periodically removed from the settling clarifiers during normal maintenance and dried to ~10% moisture prior to distribution. |
Proposed Beneficial Use:
Until 1995, Tree Top applied the material to land in Douglas County under a local solid waste handling permit. Since that time, the sludge has been marketed as a product without permitting. The applicant suggests that, as a soil amendment, the sludge is useful in providing a slow-release low-level source of organic nitrogen, adds organic material to clay or sandy soils which aids in moisture retention and overall soil tilth, and has low odor and metals levels. |
Comment Period Description:
Comments must be received in writing by August 1, 2003. |
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Washington State Department of Ecology :
Solid Waste : Benefical Use
