AquaSBR® System Treats High Strength Vegetable Processing Waste

In early 1993, Birds Eye Foods (then known as Southern Frozen Foods) was faced with a difficult decision, to construct a new wastewater treatment facility or to retrofit their existing flow-through extended aeration treatment system. The existing flow-through system was often unable to produce the required effluent quality because of widely varying flows and highly variable organic loading rates. Increasing chemical costs and excessive power consumption added to the feeling that the system was no longer suited to the needs of the growing plant operation.