Land Application Program Management
If you are like most wastewater treatment operators, you are focused on producing clean water and don’t have the time to dedicate to “managing the pile.” See how Material Matters helps clients create a land application program that is both cost-effective and easily implementable.
Establishing a Land Application Program
Material Matters assists clients with implementing cost-effective beneficial use land application programs for biosolids and other industrial or food processing residuals. In developing the program, we work closely with our clients to develop a plan that meets their short-term and long-term needs, as well as complies with local or state regulations.
Our program set-up services include:
- Reviewing the current biosolids sampling plan
- Preparing a system to acquire biosolids data
- Setting up a load tracking and data management system
- Establishing transportation and farmer payment system
- Locating and qualifying (or permitting) land application (farm) sites
- Compiling and submitting paperwork for farms
- Coordinating with regulatory agencies
Maintaining a Land Application Program
Once the program is established, we also support may of our clients with ongoing services such as:
- Arranging transportation
- Developing agronomic rates
- Conducting fieldwork
- Corresponding with regulatory personnel
- Preparing state and federal annual reports
My Material Manager® Web App for Land Application Programs
We maintain program data through the My Material Manager® web application, a cloud management solution introduced into the marketplace in 2026. This program assists wastewater treatment facilities with managing, record-keeping, and reporting to help assure their biosolids programs comply with state and federal regulations. Continually updated to account for changing regulations and technical advances in wastewater treatment residuals production. The latest version includes expanded capabilities for accessing, monitoring, and updating data, and can be further customized (by MMI programmers) to address each client’s specific operational needs, regulatory requirements, and reporting preferences.