Prices are going up these days – fuel, labor, health insurance. Added to that is the rising cost of waste disposal and treatment as the regulations requiring that human waste be treated before land application are being more strictly enforced.“The laws have not changed for a long time, probably 20 years,” says Sam Warp, superintendent of the Marshfield, Wis., wastewater treatment plant. “It’s just that enforcement has stepped up.”As a result companies have to invest in the proper equipment and materials to land-apply or pay disposal fees at treatment plants.Although it’s generally considered more expensive to take septage to a
