Addressing the Challenges for Sustainable Wastewater Management at Eden Valley Poultry

伊登谷家禽公司(EVP)位于新斯科舍省的贝里克，是一家家禽加工厂，为新斯科舍省和爱德华王子岛的农民加工和销售鸡肉和火鸡。该公司每周四天处理约80，000至100，000只鸡，每周一天处理7，000至21，000只火鸡。在这个目前面临着越来越大的改善废水处理压力的活动领域，EVP平均每天产生1，000，000 L废水，而随着更严格的环境排放要求和不断上涨的电力成本，废水处理成本也在增加。多年来，EVP一直在努力满足其设施中现有废水处理工艺的这些要求。这导致越来越高的运营成本。因此，该公司正在寻求NSCC的支持，通过在降低运营成本（提高能源效率）和环境适当处理之间取得平衡来解决这些问题，以达到所需的污水质量标准。这对于保持该行业的可持续性非常重要，并且在加拿大许多其他城市和社区中可以证明是非常宝贵的，这些城市和社区的废水处理不足或根本不存在。

Eden Valley Poultry Inc. (EVP), located in Berwick, Nova Scotia, is a poultry processing plant that processes and markets chicken and turkey for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island farmers. The company processes approximately 80,000 to 100,000 chickens four days per week and 7,000 to 21,000 turkeys one day per week. In this sector of activities which is currently under increasing pressure to improve wastewater treatment, EVP produces on average 1,000,000L of wastewater daily, while the cost of treating wastewater is increasing with more stringent environmental discharge requirements and rising power cost. Over the years, EVP has struggled with fulfilling these requirements with the existing wastewater treatment processes in their facility. This results in an increasingly high operational cost. The company is therefore seeking NSCC's support to address these issues by enabling a balance between reduced operating costs (enhanced energy efficiency) and environmentally appropriate treatment to achieve the required effluent quality criteria. This is important to maintain sustainability of the industry and can prove invaluable in many other cities and communities across Canada, where treatment of wastewater is either insufficient or non-existent.