Iowa DNR Interactive Mapping, Help Files

Iowa Anaerobic Digester Asset Mapping Tool

Welcome to the Waste Management Bureau's Iowa Anaerobic Digester Asset Mapping Tool. This tool was designed to assist the IDNR and its partners with the identification of Iowa sites that have large quantities of co-digestible feedstocks as well as industries that are large energy users.

Iowa's livestock and food processing industries provide tremendous economic benefit to the state; however, managing the waste streams from these industries economically, while mitigating environmental risks and negative societal perceptions, is a growing challenge. Through anaerobic digestion processes, manure, food processing wastes, and other industrial organic waste streams can be converted to renewable energy and valuable fertilizers. The biogas recovered from the process can be used to fuel large industrial processes or to generate electricity and thermal energy for community use. The recovered nutrients can be land applied or used as soil amendments.

Resources:

• Converting Waste Streams to Energy
• An Iowa Renewable Energy Success Story

For more information on the IDNR's Anaerobic Digester Outreach Program, contact Allan Goldberg at 515.281.8912 or Allan.Goldberg@dnr.iowa.gov.

For general information about using interactive maps, please refer to the Help pages at the left. For questions specific to use of the Iowa Anaerobic Digester Asset Mapping Tool, please contact Allan Goldberg or Chris Kahle.

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