June 2007
The Biosolids Processing Facility (Palm Beach County, Florida) will be operational in the Summer of 2008 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.

October 2004
The Governing Board of the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority (SWA) located in West Palm Beach, Florida, unanimously approved the Selection Committee's recommendation to award NEFCO a contract to design, build, and operate a Biosolids Processing Facility. The SWA facility will employ NEFCO's proven heat drying and granulation technology. The facility will be designed such that under normal circumstances, landfill gas will provide all of the heat necessary to dry the biosolids. NEFCO has assembled a highly skilled and experienced team that will permit, design, and build this facility. NEFCO will subsequently operate and maintain the facility and distribute the biosolids product to fertilizer companies and other end users.

July 2004
New England Fertilizer Company was named the winner of a Group Safety Award in the Annual Statewide Occupational Awards Program. The award was presented at The Massachusetts Safety Council's Annual Meeting held in Boston on June 24, 2004. Representatives from both the NEFCO North Andover facility and the NEFCO Quincy facility attended the meeting and award presentation.

March 2004
Mike Thayer, NEFCO's Manager of Technology and Engineering gave a presentation at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's 67th Annual Wastewater Operations Conference that was held at the Radisson St. Paul in March. Mike spoke about the methods that the Metropolitan Council of Environmental Services used to procure, design and construct the Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant Biosolids Processing Facility, which was developed and is now operated by NEFCO. Mike also discussed the capital cost of the facility, operating costs and energy costs. Mike also gave a presentation about a similar facility that NEFCO operates for the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District. This facility is fueled by digester gas rather than natural gas and contributes waste heat to heat the GLSD digesters. This plant utilizes highly sustainable technologies to produce fertilizer without the use of fossil fuels.

December 2003
Greater Lawrence Sanitary District Biosolids Drying Facility Celebrates One Year of Successful Operations. The Greater Lawrence Sanitary District executed a contract with NEFCO in February 1999 for the design, construction, and operation of a heat drying and pelletization facility for processing biosolids generated from the GLSD wastewater treatment plant. The wastewater plant can treat up to 52 million gallons per ay of residential and industrial sewage, and services a population of around 200,000. The NEFCO drying facility is designed to process up to 38 dry tons per day of biosolids. This contract was the result of a very competitive solicitation process that was initiated in early 1997. The construction of the drying facility commenced in June of 2001, and commercial operations began in December of 2002. The drying facility has been successfully operating since that time, and all performance requirements were met in 2003.