Project
Information
Date:
June 2002
Location: Alfred, Maine
Facility: York County Jail
Design Flow: 20,000 Gallons per
Day
Wastewater Type: Institutional
The
wastewater disposal system serving the York County Jail in Alfred,
Maine was in imminent danger of hydraulic failure due to a rapid
increase in inmate population over the last several years.
Excessive nitrate concentrations from the jail's overtaxed existing
system also threatened to contaminate the groundwater on neighboring
properties owned
by a local water