On August 17, representatives from congressional offices, US Water Alliance Chief Executive Officer Mami Hara, Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 Water Division Director Jeff Robichaud, and Mayor Quinton Lucas visited the biosolids facility site for a brief...
The Blue River wastewater treatment plant – the plant that processes the vast majority of solids in Kansas City’s wastewater – retired its half-century old incinerators to adopt new technology, a thermal hydrolysis process (THP). But, what exactly is THP,...
Watch a Building Information Modeling (BIM) video tour. Not only will the Blue River Biosolids Facility have the latest technology to process human waste into a useful agricultural product, the facility is also being designed using the latest architectural technology....
Watch a video of helical pile installation. A big part of recent construction at the Blue River Biosolids plant is the installation of over 200 helical piles. Chances are these helical piles, while not “piles” in the familiar sense, will be all but forgotten once...
Click the link to watch a video of Brooke Givens, KC Water communications and outreach manager, interviewing Amy Goetz, Black & Veatch civil engineer about Envision™. The City of Kansas City, Missouri made a commitment to sustainable infrastructure decades ago....
Click the link to watch a video of Suzie Carpenter, Black & Veatch design manager, explaining how recycling is a big part of KC Water’s new biosolids project. The former KC Water Blue River solids processing building and incinerator stack have been...
