In the City: Dayton Goes Green, Every Day

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DAYTON -- The city of Dayton's waste water treatment process produces 600,000 cubic feet of methane gas per day and the city is looking to capture the gas and reduce waste.

Half of the methane is used to generate electricity for the city's Waste Water Treatment Plant on Guthrie Road and to heat water to run boilers and engines during the waste water treatment process. The other half is wasted, burned off into the environment widening the city's carbon footprint.

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In the City: Dayton Goes Green, Every Day

Lalit Gupta, the city's acting division manager of the waste water treatment plant, felt that wasn't acceptable. His goal is to recapture and use 100 percent of that methane and sell off any excess to...

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