Richmond wastewater treatment plant to resume operations amid controversy

Richmond Wastewater Plant

The wastewater treatment plant in Point Richmond will soon restart full operations, said Aaron Weiner, district manager at Veolia Water, the company that runs the facility. Solid waste processing at the plant was shut down in early October, 2010. Since then, the company has been hauling about a hundred trucks of solid human waste each week to an East Bay Municipal Utility District facility in Oakland.

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