Twin flames of burning methane at the South Shore sewage treatment plant in Oak Creek are the color of money.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has been running up an unexpected utility bill of $4,000 a day since early November as...In November, South Shore plant workers were repairing a section of corroded iron pipe used to drain water vapor from other pipes in the system when they determined corrosion problems were more widespread, according to district technical services director Mike Martin. Methane was leaking from an undetermined location, so the network of pipes used to deliver gas to aboveground storage tanks and turbine generators was shut down for safety reasons.
Methane continues to be produced at the sewage plant, and the volume that cannot be burned in turbines - 13 million cubic feet of the gas in November - is being burned in the two flares because there is no place to store it...Read on at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/methane-leak-means-soaring-electric-bill-for-sewer-district-9c3anle-135058523.html
