Churchill Abattoir
Clean water reuse out of abattoir effluent
Located on the banks of the Bremer River, the Churchill Abattoir processes approximately 2,000 head per week providing meat to Woolworths retail outlets and operates a rendering plant at its Ipswich Queensland site.According to the Queensland EPA Churchill has reduced its potable water consumption by 40 percent and the agency is looking for further cuts through the upgrade of wastewater treatment systems and reusing the water on site.
Historically wastewater, including effluent from the killing and processing operations, was treated via a conventional dissolved air flotation system, a three stage ponding system and pasture irrigation.
The H2O Pure Plus® installation has achieved extraordinary results for the abattoir by tapping into the ponds and treating the water naturally and without chemicals on its return to holding tanks before reuse in the abattoir.
The abattoir's environmental engineer, Mike Spence told the Australian Hardware Journal: "The filter's certainly doing its job and while at present we're using the recycled water mainly for washing down, once we've sorted the algae in the settling ponds we'll be using it as feedwater for the boiler and in the condensing towers." Not only is the
abattoir expecting savings of up to $70,000 a year, but the facility isn't putting pressure on limited town water supplies."
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