Simmons Adds Reactor to Improve Water Quality
by July 13, 1998 12:00 am 61 views
Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs plans to build a sequential batch reactor near its Southwest City, Mo., processing plant to “continue improving the water quality in the Cave Springs Branch by enhancing nutrient removal,” says Mark Simmons, chairman of the company.
Construction of the $2 million addition at Simmons Foods Wastewater Treatment Facilities is expected to be completed within eight months. The reactor, which can hold 6.5 million gallons of processing water, will be added to the discharge water treatment system to help meet current discharge permit limits by reducing the amount of nutrients in the water.
Simmons Foods voluntarily shut down its Southwest City, Mo., plant for a few days last spring because of excess suspended solids in water discharged to the Cave Springs Branch. The water was diverted to holding ponds and recirculated through the system to insure appropriate water quality for discharge.
Doug Siemens, a spokesman for the company, says the addition was planned before the plant was temporarily closed.
“We were looking to the future when we designed the SBR,” he says.