HP Hood facility reaps benefits from anaerobic digestion plant
The system removes 99% of organic waste material from high-strength dairy production wastewater.
One of the largest dairy production operations in the United States is achieving outstanding environmental performance from a Global Water & Energy FLOTAMET anaerobic digestion plant that removes pollution from wastewater and transforms it into green energy to fuel boilers. The FLOTAMET-M system, installed at HP Hood’s Vernon, N.Y., plant is a key component of an integrated wastewater treatment line installed by Global Water & Energy that is achieving 99% removal of organic waste material from high-strength dairy production wastewater.
The wastewater treatment plant installed at HP Vernon replaced an older treatment plant to improve discharge qualities to local municipal treatment facilities, Global Water & Energy said, as well as to provide optimum treatment of high-strength waste from another HP Hood Plant in Oneida, N.Y. Removal of a large percentage of the wastewater’s chemical oxygen demand (COD) load means wastewater effluent leaving the plant is of such high quality that it dramatically reduces the impact of the HP Hood facility on the town’s small municipal treatment plant.