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The team at the Hawk Ridge Compost Facility includes, from left, Richard Howell and Richard Kaufmann, equipment operators; George Belmont, facility manager; Jim Stevens, operator; Robert Bowman, operations manager; and Keith Hunter, yard manager.
More than 30 municipalities around New England can be sure their wastewater biosolids are put to good use and not just filling up expensive landfills.
They send their biosolids to the Hawk Ridge Compost Facility in Unity, Maine. There the biosolids are mixed with wood chips and...