DIG-L: WV Digester

["jay judy" <queen1roxi@hotmail.com>]

Hello to All,

I first want to say many thanks to each and everyone of you for your e-mail 
and advice. I really do appreciate everything. I have been reading this 
server page for over a week and sometimes I get a little confused. One 
person says this, one person says that, one person thinks thermophilic is 
best, one person thinks mesophilic is best. I must say if I were a person 
going to build a digester, I would be more confused after reading this page 
than before, just my opinion. I suppose it is no different than (my county 
leaders wanting to place a digester beside of someones home and or high 
school) the group CAD beliveing it is not safe to be placed beside of a home 
or high school. I have received all kind of technical advice and I have 
tried to sort through it all, but still the question remains...do all of you 
believe this digester project belongs beside of a home or high school? 
Before you make a decision the following is a description of the proposed 
digester/fertilizer facility. This is taken from the feasibility report.
This facility will be capable of processing an average of 60 dry tons/day of 
organic waste (85 wet tons/day @ 70% solids content). This will provide the 
opportunity to accept approximatly 40% of the poultry waste generated in 
Pendleton County and all of the total current load on the Town of Franklin's 
waste water treatment plant (153,000).
The facility is designed  and will be located so that the processing 
capacity can be easily expanded at a reasonable cost, should future waste 
processing needs be greater than this baseline. (this has already happened 
Crabtree has asked for another $970,000 for upgrade engineering, because now 
they want to bring solid waste to the facility).
The primary components of the proposed six (6) acre facility, including an 
receiving and mixing building which contains an estimated 14,000 square feet 
and also houses the biosecurity station and a maintenance shop two digester 
tanks (55 feet in diameter and 51 feet tall) two secondary digester tanks 
(20 feet in diameter and forty feet tall), a 1.6 megawatt combined heat and 
power set facility, a fertilizer processing building which contains an 
estimated 12,000 square feet, a small admimistration building with restroom, 
showers and a laboratory, a storm-water retention pond, a 17,000 square foot 
warehouse, and a wastewater treatment process. Additional space is allotted 
for equipment access and vehicle parking. Power, telephone, sewer and water 
utilities will be required to serve the site.
I thank you very much for your time, understanding, and advice.
Sincerely, Roxann Hoover


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