Clearas Water bags contract to produce algae from Utah municipal wastewater

In Utah, Montana-based Clearas Water has secured a contract to upscale its wastewater treatment process through algae farming, called the Advanced Biological Nutrient Recovery system, at a Utah municipality that will process 4 million gallons of wastewater per day. The company’s current demonstration facility in Missoula processes 15,000 gallons of wastewater per day. It says its ideal projects are ones where wastewater treatment facilities are inland, feeding into rivers and lakes that can’t take heavy nutrient loads rather than oceans where water bodies can dilute more volume.