Press moves discharge permit approval, reduces costs
ProblemDave Hapchuk owns and operates a septage receiving facility where he pretreats septage from his operation and seven others southwest of Pittsburgh. With tightening restrictions, effluent quality was threatening his permit renewal: “I was lying awake trying to figure out how to make sure we’d get our discharge permit renewed. I wanted to lower my surcharges by sending a better quality of water to the city plant.”
SolutionThe solution came with a Fournier Rotary Press. After screening, grit removal and settling in tanks, sludge is pumped to the dewatering system. The cake comes out as
