LNP – Lancaster Online: Ephrata (PA) may host manure-to-electricity power as part of Chesapeake Bay cleanup

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Story by AD Crable, Staff Writer for Lancaster Online
August 12, 2018

Land next to a sewage-treatment plant in Ephrata Borough could become the home of a strategic manure-to-electricity plant to boost efforts to reduce farm-related runoff pollution into the Chesapeake Bay.

Borough Council is scheduled to vote Monday night on a nonbinding letter of interest to work out details of the project, which is being pushed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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(A gasifier in Nebraska by Earthcare that would be similar to one proposed for Ephrata Borough.)