Catching the Fugitive : WRRFs do not need the U.S. Marshals to fix their fugitive methane problems / Embrey Bronstad, Dante Fiorino, Trung Le, John Willis, Nancy Andrews, Tom Nangle, Emily Weidman, Tyler Schweinfurth, and Stacia Eckenwiler.

Abstract: Last year ["Escape Artist," September], WE&T relayed the story of the City of Columbus (Ohio) Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, where staff conducted a field campaign that raised the issue of fugitive methane emissions at municipal water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). A year after the team searched the equivalent of every "henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse" at the facility for fugitive methane, the question now is: What can be done about it? Since the investigation, the authors have focused on addressing these pesky and potentially dangerous leaks with a range of solutions. WRRFs that are trying to address their own fugitive methane will benefit from the Columbus team’s analysis of which methane capture methods work, which ones do not, and how much they cost.