Case Study
FACILITY SAVES MILLIONS WITH AERATION
FACILITY SAVES MILLIONS WITH AERATION DEL MONTE FOODS INTRODUCTION Plant managers at Del Monte Foods in Northwest Arkansas utilized a 14 million gallon facultative lagoon to provide treatment before applying the effluent on 500 acres of land nearby. However, the facultative lagoon was unable to meet the municipal pretreatment permit requirements, resulting in surcharges of $450,000 per month. METHOD After reviewing possible solut