Todd Frank, an intern at the National Association of Wastewater Transporters, is developing an Excel spreadsheet with a feasibility study for pumpers considering building their own wastewater treatment facility. “Determining whether to build a processing plant is more complicated than just knowing what you pay to offload at a municipality,” Frank says. “You need receiving and processing equipment, electricity, holding tanks, polymers, odor control, dried solids and water disposal – it’s a long list with subcategories such as renting a building or constructing one.”
The spreadsheet begins with an input sheet where pumping contractors enter operating costs. The time-value money sheet
