Walking the trails in the city park, you’ll see a couple of huge orange flames shooting up amongst rhe trees. First time I saw them was at night and it looked like a tree fire. The flames are actually coming from a couple of pipe-ish structures in the Clean Water Services facility (the city’s sewage wastewater treatment plant).
What are there flames burning 24/7 at the wastewater plant?
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They are burning off methane gas which is likely being generated from the organic matter breaking down during the treatment process. If allowed to build up there is a very real risk of an explosion, so the gas is burned off as you’ve seen.
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