IOWA:
Facility Solves Regulatory Challenges
The newsletter of the Iowa Onsite Waste Water Association chronicled the growth of Accurate Dewatering Services, the state’s only privately owned septage dewatering facility.
When Polk County authorities banned land application, Jody Forest was spreading a million gallons of septage a year through his company, Forest Septic Tank Service in Des Moines. Forest and friend Jerry Heckman attended the 2007 National Association of Wastewater Transporters Waste Treatment Symposium, then built the facility with a design capacity of 40,000 gpd.
Entering its third year, the plant receives 5,000 to 25,000 gallons of septage a day. In 2010, it dewatered nearly
