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TAUNTON A new gasification facility, meant to deal with the region s sludge, has been proposed to built on the site of Taunton s defunct landfill.
It would be owned and run by Aries Clean Technologies a Tennessee-based company whose facilities, one in Tennessee and one soon-to-open in New Jersey, take sewage sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants and turn it into biochar through a gasification process.
Aries s plan boasts financial boons for the city, especially after the closure of the landfill on East Britannia Street last year.
But the city has received a letter of opposition from a conservation advocacy group about the potential environmental and health impacts, giving some in city government pause.