Project
Information
Date:
June 2002
Location: Alfred, ME
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