Welcome to Effluential Synergies
Innovative Wastewater Treatment with Solutions for Resource Recovery
Embracing the Circular Economy
Effluential Synergies Is Ready to Assist You
Bill Toffey, our principal in Effluential Synergies, has been for over three decades at the vanguard of technologies and programs that advance excellence in biosolids management and an advocate for innovation and resilience in resource recovery programs. His vision is for wastewater treatment and biosolids to assume its rightful role in responding to climate change, sustainable agriculture, land restoration, clean water and soil health.
Innovative Solutions
Effluential Synergies maintains comprehensive databases of technology solutions offerings in solids treatment and of science related to environmental effects of biosolids use. Clients have access, too, to “grey literature” from conferences, local and national, the provide results of reference facility installations and comparative evaluations of manufacturer options. They also can learn about innovative approaches to contracting for public works and for services and learn how innovative solutions can provide resilience and cost effectiveness.
Sustainable Agriculture
Soil health is a focus of Effluential Synergies in the use of biosolids in agriculture, land rehabilitation and horticulture. Effluential Synergies draws on scientists with career-long experience in biosolids effects on soils, thus ensuring that generators and users of biosolids can trust biosolid to provide promised benefits to soils and crops. Biosolids replaces crop nutrients derived from extracted materials with recycled nutrients. Learn how biosolids is part of sustainable farming and degraded ecosystem restoration.
Clean Water
Biosolids is one of two products of wastewater treatment: Pure water returned to rivers and biosolids rich with nutrients and organic matter. As goals for effluent quality rise, the greater capture of nutrients, carbon and grit shift processing needs for the solids products, which are opportunities for new technologies and new off-take products. Equipment and solutions of yesterday may not be up to the task. Learn how biosolids technologies are part of our national clean water goals.
Public Advocacy
Deployment of biosolids for its resource values is a story seldom told. Too often, a misstep in biosolids management puts agencies and their contractors on the defensive in public meetings, with the media or with elected officials. Too often, communications is given short shrift in the list of program tasks. The story of biosolids recycling can be told in compelling ways, specifically as a response to urgent climate and ecosystem damage. The risk that fear replaces public support can be mitigated with a positive message. Learn how Effluential Synergies can assist with your advocacy to the public for your biosolids programs. o
We Work Across Wastewater Sectors
Our mission is to bring new technologies to public systems. This means working with technology companies, scientists, engineering consultants, and with public agencies. But more than these, we reaching out to environmental professionals working with ecosystems, land restoration, climate, estuaries, and agriculture. We seek diversity in experience and viewpoint, so that all solutions sets are tested and the whole array of ways that biosolids is a tool that meet the needs of ecosystems and climate are expressed compellingly.
Without a Vision of sustainability --
Your program will be Stuck in the Past
We are focused on the role public wastewater agencies play in fulfilling their communities’ goals for a clean and healthy environment and for meaningful response to climate change. In the face of growing extremes in weather, exposures to persistent pollutants, demands for alternative fuels, desires for local food production, wastewater facilities see their roles expand. How can each public agency make maximal use of existing infrastructure investment, as in using equipment effectively, but perhaps also from increasing revenues from treatment of trucked in waste and from sale of biosolids products. Opportunities to develop regional partnerships across municipal lines, or to participate in public-private partnerships with technology and service providers, are options that can be explored as biosolids management programs become open to reconsideration. Effluential Synergies can help with examining these opportunities for improvement.
Let’s strive to make decisions today about our equipment and programs that reflect the emerging challenges imposed by climate change and other environmental pressures. Let us bequeath to future generations a treatment system and program that is built on a realistic forecast far different from past conditions that too often constrain our view of options. Effluential Synergies can help you get unstuck from the past and strike a strong vision of the future.
