McFadden Engineering (MEI) currently provides operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment system and permit compliance services for Coast Seafood’s processing facility in Coden, Alabama. The facility has an attached growth biological treatment system that treats the wastewater from the processing facility and disinfects the water using ozone treatment prior to injection into a disposal field at the site. The facility has an ADEM underground injection control (UIC) permit for the disposal of wastewater requiring monitoring of the effluent from the treatment system and the groundwater adjacent to the disposal field. MEI was retained by Coast Seafood to maintain the system and performs the following tasks on a quarterly basis at the facility:
Through MEI’s efforts, the treatment system and disposal field has remained in compliance with its UIC permit and good standing with ADEM.