
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 21, 1993                   TAG: 9307210159
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Lon Wagner
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

HENRY SEEKS NEW SOLUTION FOR SLUDGE

Efforts in Henry County to build a tire incinerator that also dries waste-water sludge will continue, but the county's Public Service Authority no longer is looking at the innovative incinerator as a way to solve its waste-disposal problem.

The Public Service Authority announced Tuesday that the tire incinerator could not possibly be developed soon enough to help the authority dispose of 10,500 tons of sludge the county produces each year.

Atlantic-Pacific Engineering had hoped to solve two solid-waste problems with the incinerator: getting rid of used tires and getting rid of waste-water sludge.

The authority issued a news release Tuesday indicating that Henry County would look at composting as an alternative to the incinerator. The authority, however, said it continued to support the goal of the project, and would allow Atlantic-Pacific to follow through with testing the prototype incinerator at the authority's Lower Smith River treatment plant.

by CNB