Council Approves Feasibility Study for AD Facility at Glendale, Calif., Landfill

A six-month study will be conducted by Waste Resources Inc. and OWS, Inc. to examine the feasibility of implementing an anaerobic digester, a technology that breaks down organic waste into methane.

"It will give us a much more potent methane gas that we can later decide what to do with," City Manager Scott Ochoa told council members.

Those options range from using it to generate electricity at Grayson Power Plant to selling it for profit and flaring it, which basically means venting it into the air while meeting legal environmental standards, said Steve Zurn, general manager of Glendale Water & Power.