Septic pumpers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska don’t have a local disposal site for septage. Every day, they have to ship 50,000 gallons of septage to the Anchorage Point Woronzof treatment plant. The plant already operates under an exemption from the Clean Water Act allowing it to discharge effluent with much less treatment required at most wastewater plants. Officials expect the U.S. EPA to pressure the city to limit how much waste they accept from outside the area, which also includes around 1.5 million gallons of landfill leachate.Of the 96,000 residents of what is called Mat-Su, about 80,000 use
