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Hoosac Water Quality District to Keep Producing Compost for Now

The Hoosac Water Quality District will continue its decades-long practice of composting biosolid waste and offering it for sale as fertilizer.

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HQWD Rescinds Proposed FY26 Budget Over Sludge Disposal Changes

The HWQD's board on Wednesday voted to rescind its approved $1.5 million budget after Casella Waste Management withdrew its option to truck untreated residential sewage from other communities to the Williamstown facility and then distribute the composted product elsewhere.

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Williamstown Proposes 'Contingent' Hike in Wastewater Assessment

It remains to be seen whether town meeting and the town's partner in the district, go along with the idea.

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PFAS Issue Splits Williamstown Select Board on Sewer Rate

About 20 residents and the majority of the Select Board on Monday sent a message to the Hoosac Water Quality District: importing sludge and converting it to compost is a bad deal and unethical.