North Bay Business Journal

  • Lagunitas explores own wastewater plant

    February 6th, 2012

    PETALUMA — Lagunitas Brewing Co. wants to build its own process-wastewater treatment plant to handle the expected growth of its brewery in the next several years, and Petaluma and business leaders are exploring whether additional industrial wastewater treatment capacity is needed to accommodate current food and beverage companies as well as attract more.

  • Spotlight on innovators in green technology

    February 1st, 2010

    This spotlight focuses on some of the North Bay people and companies that are creating new green technologies that are being put to work in the field daily. Know someone who should be here? Let us know. Listed alphabetically by innovator name.

  • Jackson Wine, firms collaborate on advance to water recylcling

    January 18th, 2010

    NAPA — Civil engineering firm Riechers Spence & Associates and wastewater treatment systems integrator Heritage Systems, both of Napa, have pooled their resources in development and installation of a new water recycling system that helped Jackson Family Wines cut wash water use by 70 percent in a yearlong test.

  • Wineries employ water-saving systems; new look at ‘greywater’

    June 22nd, 2009

    GRATON – The wine and construction industries are finding new ways to reuse and conserve water as constraints are put on the supply of water.

  • New tool for winery waste cuts costs, cleans up

    August 25th, 2008

    WINDSOR — The surge and strength of wastewater from winemaking vexes vintners in sensitive environmental areas such as the North Coast, but a treatment system going into a multimillion-dollar boutique winery nearing completion in this Sonoma County town might provide a solution not only for wineries but also for homebuilders, rural homeowners and mariners.

  • Drip wastewater disposal gains favor

    February 25th, 2008

    ST. HELENA — Some wineries and rural homeowners are turning to the underground sibling of drip irrigation for a solution — albeit an expensive one — to conditions in which conventional or other alternative septic systems fail or are unusable.

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