Spring City Acres, the new owners of 80 acres of farmland in East Coventry and East Vincent townships, is ready to soon start construction on a concrete pit that will hold as much as 1.4 million gallons of food processing waste, writes Evan Brandt for the Daily Local News.
While the farmland is in two townships, the pit will be constructed on 25 acres in East Coventry.
The food waste will be used as fertilizer for farms.
Spring City Acres is connected to Nolt Trucking, a Lititz-based company that will transport mostly liquid waste in from food processing plants. This will primarily consist of so-called “sugar water” and “chocolate water,” and will contain no meat products or human waste.
The 120-foot-wide, 16-foot-deep pit will be constructed on top of a plastic liner. The goal is to prevent any leaks from getting into the groundwater or streams.
The pit will not smell of manure, but it will have an odor, said Bill Rogers with A.E.T. Consulting, which was hired to prepare a “nutrient balance plan” for the storage pit.
Read more about the planned construction in the Daily Local News.
