Juneau vets other options as sending sludge south gets spendy

The Juneau Utility Advisory Board has new recommendations on how the municipality should deal with its waste. Right now, about 7,000 tons of the city’s sludge is barged to Oregon — costing about $2 million a year.
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City engineer Rorie Watt said the advisory board met multiple times over the past year to discuss solutions.
“What the utility board essentially found is that indeed that they agree the dryer is our best option.”
Watt said think of the dryer as a