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May 20, 2005
System changes hog waste into clean water
Don Lloyd,of Ayden, NC, has developed a system that purports to purify the kind of putrid, waste-filled water currently dumped into so-called hog lagoons across North Carolina.
The pilot system developed by Lloyd at Little Creek Hog Farms cleans out three hog houses four times a day, churning out potable water within six hours that is recycled again to water the hogs. The solid waste strained from the water is mixed with high-carbon cotton plant remnants to make compost.
The $150,000 system developed with help from a state environmental grant is completely closed, with pipes running from flushing tanks through the houses and into purifying tanks.
Environmentalists with Sustainable North Carolina partnered with hog farmers on the project an unlikely coalition, and cheered the notion of an inexpensive way of eradicating the hog waste lagoons.
The system has met the program's environmental requirement, and may cost 40 percent less to operate than a hog lagoon, as reported by the Associated Press, and published by Business Week Online.
I always said, there is no bad water, just unfiltered water.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at May 20, 2005 06:56 PM
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