Utah State project aims to reduce phosphorus in lagoons with algal biofuels

Biofuels Digest
August 20, 2010 Thomas Saidak

In Utah, in another use of biofuels as a tool for problem solving, Logan officials have been given a seven year deadline to reduce phosphorus levels by half in the sewage lagoons. The water from these lagoons discharges into the Cutler Reservoir where the phosphorous causes algae blooms that asphyxiates fish and other animals.

Logan city officials are working with Utah State University to research and develop a project to grow algae in the offending lagoons, consuming phosphorous, which would then be run through digesters to produce biofuels.

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