Rural Sewerage (RUS) has been built in Japan since 1973 and the number of RUS plants being operated has reached 89 in April in 1985. In general, the most serious problem in operating a waste water treatment plant is the disposal of its sludge.
In the case of RUS, an idea to dispose of sludge by returning it to farmland as manure is brought up. But it has been hardly examined, wheather returning sludge to farmland as manure is economically advantageous than dumping it as waste matter or not; or what is the most suitable way to return sludge of RUS to farmland as manure.
Our case study on 4 RUS plants has made these points clear followingly:
(1) Most of these plants dispose of sludge at a lower cost by returning it to farmland as manure than dumping it as waste matter at a human waste treatment plant.
(2) In case of RUS, it is more advantageous to use liquid sludge than to use it after its dehydration. The reasons are as follows:
(1) Sludge of RUS is produced locally scattered and temporally intermittently, and the amount of sludge produced by a plant at a time is very little. So, it is unexpectable to use a dehydrator economically.
(2) A RUS plant is usually located near the village surrounded by farmland. Therefore, it is not difficult to transport liquid sludge from the plant to farmland.
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