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Waste-Treatment Facilities of the Belle Center Creamery and Cheese Company D. G. Neill Editor, Industry and Power St. Joseph, Michigan Belle Center is a small town of 1,000 people in northern Logan County approximately six miles east of Indian Lake. The Belle Center Creamery and Cheese Company, the only industry in the village, is in the heart of the village and covers approximately a square block of ground. The company owns a tract of land one mile from the plant just outside the city limits to the northeast. This land consists of fifty acres and is used as a disposal farm. A three-inch pipe line connects the plant with the disposal farm, which has three lagoons covering an area of twenty acres. The name of the company does not wholly describe its present functions, although it started as a little cream station on the corner and then expanded until now its principal products are cheese and milk sugar (which is derived from cheese whey). In peak production approximately 200 people are employed. One hundred fifty thousand pounds of milk are processed daily, with an average weekly milk pay to the farmers of $35,000. From these figures you can easily realize that the company is a vital factor in the town. The village of Belle Center has neither waste-treatment facilities nor sanitary sewers. It does, however, have a system of county ditches (or sewers) named after past mayors of the village. This system of ditches drains the storm water, overflow from septic tanks, and house wastes directly into the Miami River or the Liggitt Lateral, a branch of the Miami River. Both these streams are very small. In 1941 the milk-sugar plant was constructed in order that the American Home Products Corporation might have a source of raw material, milk sugar, for use in many of its products. In 1944 the entire creamery was purchased by the American Home Products Corporation from its former owner. The new owners realized that there was a waste-treatment problem ; but before they could do anything, the farmers downstream and some of the resort owners on Indian Lake obtained an injunction prohibiting 45
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC194806 |
Title | Waste-treatment facilities of the Belle Center Creamery and Cheese Company |
Author | Neill, D. G. |
Date of Original | 1948 |
Researcher Note | Proceedings of the fourth Industrial Waste Conference |
Conference Front Matter (copy and paste) | http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/engext&CISOPTR=2061&REC=4 |
Extent of Original | p. 45-53 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
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Title | page045 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Rights Statement | Digital object copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
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Transcript | Waste-Treatment Facilities of the Belle Center Creamery and Cheese Company D. G. Neill Editor, Industry and Power St. Joseph, Michigan Belle Center is a small town of 1,000 people in northern Logan County approximately six miles east of Indian Lake. The Belle Center Creamery and Cheese Company, the only industry in the village, is in the heart of the village and covers approximately a square block of ground. The company owns a tract of land one mile from the plant just outside the city limits to the northeast. This land consists of fifty acres and is used as a disposal farm. A three-inch pipe line connects the plant with the disposal farm, which has three lagoons covering an area of twenty acres. The name of the company does not wholly describe its present functions, although it started as a little cream station on the corner and then expanded until now its principal products are cheese and milk sugar (which is derived from cheese whey). In peak production approximately 200 people are employed. One hundred fifty thousand pounds of milk are processed daily, with an average weekly milk pay to the farmers of $35,000. From these figures you can easily realize that the company is a vital factor in the town. The village of Belle Center has neither waste-treatment facilities nor sanitary sewers. It does, however, have a system of county ditches (or sewers) named after past mayors of the village. This system of ditches drains the storm water, overflow from septic tanks, and house wastes directly into the Miami River or the Liggitt Lateral, a branch of the Miami River. Both these streams are very small. In 1941 the milk-sugar plant was constructed in order that the American Home Products Corporation might have a source of raw material, milk sugar, for use in many of its products. In 1944 the entire creamery was purchased by the American Home Products Corporation from its former owner. The new owners realized that there was a waste-treatment problem ; but before they could do anything, the farmers downstream and some of the resort owners on Indian Lake obtained an injunction prohibiting 45 |
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