April 2009
Cumberland, Maryland Selects NEFCO
The City of Cumberland, Maryland has selected NEFCO to design, build, operate and maintain a heat drying facility for sludge processing and disposal. The City identified NEFCO's alternate proposal as the best proposal submitted and the contract is being finalized. NEFCO is very excited about working with the City of Cumberland in this new venture.

October 2008
GLSD Ten Year Contract Exension
NEFCO is pleased to announce that the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District (GLSD) has opted to extend our contract to operate the biosolids drying facility on their behalf for an additional ten years. The biosolids drying facility was initially procured under a design, build, operate contract, and commenced operations in October 2002. The facility is unique in that it uses digester gas (a renewable fuel) to fuel the dryers, and was designed to be energy self sufficient. In addition, the dried product has been beneficially used as a marketable fertilizer for the past six years.

June 2007
The Biosolids Processing Facility (Palm Beach County, Florida) will be operational in the Summer of 2009 and will have the capacity to process in excess of 600 wet tons of dewatered solids per day. The Building Permit was received from the City of West Palm Beach during the first week in April, 2007. The Phase I sitework is complete. A site specific QA/QC program was established in April as well as a site-specific Safety Program.

June 2006
The Metropolitan Council of Environmental Services (MCES) exercised its option to extend the term of the Operations Contract with NEFCO for the solids processing services at the Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant on June 1, 2006. The Operations Contract has been extended through April 30, 2011. NEFCO has been operating the biosolids drying facility for MCES since November of 2000. This project continues to be a very successful partnership between a private company and a public entity through the utilization of a unique employee arrangement.

November 2005
The Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant in Shakopee, Minnesota received second place from the 20th Annual U.S. EPA Clean Water Act Recognition Awards in the Large Advanced Plant Category, Operation and Maintenance, having demonstrated outstanding achievement in the water quality field. The facility was honored at an awards ceremony held during the WEFTEC conference in Washington, D.C. As noted in the November 2005 edition of Water Environment & Technology, all the biosolids from the facility are processed by NEFCO and used as fertilizer. The success of the public-private partnership between the Metropolitan Council of Environmental Services (MCES) and NEFCO was recognized as part of this award. In addition, the Blue Lake Final Stabilization facility operated by NEFCO was acknowledged by EPA for its emphasis on environmental sustainability.