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Operational Excellence (continued)
Several sites made significant progress in 2021, • Springfield, OR: the facility regularly partners with
including: the Willamalane Park and Recreation District to
• Fayetteville, AR: this site recently completed a care for our local public spaces. Partnerships and
project that recycles treated water from the onsite programs included several trash pick-up events at
wastewater treatment process into makeup for a Dorris Ranch, the first commercial filbert orchard
cooling tower, reducing the amount of city water in the United States and a valued historic site,
used for process cooling. Wastewater from the as well as invasive species removal and bank
various cleanup and processing activities is treated improvements on the millrace at the north end of
onsite and then discharged to the Public Works our facility.
Commission water treatment facility (POTW). • Sheboygan, WI: A Six Sigma project reduced
Recycling this treated water reduces the volume distillate water disposal volumes by 90 percent and
of water discharged to the POTW by 3.1 million eliminated nearly 90 truck shipments of wastewater
gallons per year. Even better, it also reduces the from the roadways. Process piping and filtration
amount of city water purchased by 3.1 million modifications were made in the plant, and testing
gallons per year. This recycling effort reduces the proved that reuse of the distillate stream was
site’s impact on the local water resources and is possible without negative process or product
equivalent to the average annual usage of more quality impacts.
than 100 people.
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