Ethanol plant could use treated sewer water PRINCESS ANNE, MD (wesm) - (AP) The company hoping to build an ethanol plant in Somerset County may be able get most of the water it needs without tapping groundwater supplies.

Chesapeake Renewable Energy is looking instead at using treated wastewater from two county sewage treatment plants.

The company has already applied to pump more than 1 million gallons per day from the Pocomoke aquifer, but Worcester County officials are concerned that the water supply might be insufficient for the additional demand.

Chesapeake executives plan to meet this week with Somerset County Sanitary District manager Robin Street to discuss the wastewater option. It would require the installation of a pipe from the sewage treatment plants to the ethanol plant site just north of Pocomoke City.
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