Overview
A pilot project for USEPA, the Resource Recovery Center is so massive it has been viewed by orbiting NASA astronauts. The Plant uses a land treatment process encompassing 11,000 acres of aeration and settling basins, storage lagoons, and irrigated cropland.
System Advantages:
- A treatment facility that can handle hard-to-treat industrial waste
- Low overall operating costs
For industries that have hard-to-treat wastes, the County System can treat:
- high volumes of wastewater or high variations in flow
- wastewaters with high amounts of suspended solids or biochemical oxygen demand
For industries that want:
- low cost wastewater treatment
- the cleanest environmentally-safe discharge into streams, rivers, and lakes
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The current wholesale charges to the communities are comparatively low. The local townships and cities then add charges for their own sewer collection systems.
Exceptionally clean water is returned to the Muskegon River, eventually flowing to Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan.
Extra capacity to treat high strength (high BOD or solids) wastes was added in the 1990s. With low wastewater charges and low surcharge rates for high-strength wastes, the County has the ability to lower commercial or industrial production costs in an environmentally-friendly manner.
The System currently treats discharges from firms engaged in organic chemical manufacturing, food processing, and a variety of metals coating and forming
The System also receives hauled waste from outside the county, including out of state.