Employees of the Fairfield water department have learned a new skill this holiday season — how to operate an excavator to extract 4,225 tons of agricultural lime from a lagoon to haul to neighboring farmers for their fields.
The substance is a result of sedimentation from the department’s lime softening plant, creating a calcium-rich, alkaline byproduct. For the past two decades, water department superintendent ...
Employees of the Fairfield water department have learned a new skill this holiday season — how to operate an excavator to extract 4,225 tons of agricultural lime from a lagoon to haul to neighboring farmers for their fields.
The substance is a result of sedimentation from the department’s lime softening plant, creating a calcium-rich, alkaline byproduct. For the past two decades, water department superintendent ...