BOD count temporarily spikes to eight times the allowed limit by Joseph Back Now back to normal in chemistry terms, the Boyd Sanitary Plant had an unfriendly incident recently—blood dumped on site …
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BOD count temporarily spikes to eight times the allowed limit
by Joseph Back
Now back to normal in chemistry terms, the Boyd Sanitary Plant had an unfriendly incident recently—blood dumped on site from unknown persons, the plant allowing private haulers.
Streets and Utilities head Tom Grunewald filled in the village board on happenings ou Boundary Road, in southeast Boyd.
“We had a load of blood dumped at the plant,” Grunewald said at the August meeting. “My plant was red.” With microscopic confirmation of the matter involved, the plant ou Boundary Road saw BOD levels temporarily spike to 400, or eight times the allowed limit of 50. BOD is an acronym for Biochemical Oxygen Demand, and refers to the amount of dissolved oxygen required to break down organic material.
“And blood will do that,” Grunewald said of the temporary spike in BOD readings at the plant.
Now back at 13 and within accepted metrics, Grunewald said the plant was taking samples from haulers to make sure nothing of the kind happened again. Should it be necessary to close ou the Boyd Sanitary plant to private hauling, the next closest areas private haulers can reportedly go are Thorp and Chippewa Falls.
“Stanley doesn’t take it, and Cadott doesn’t take it,” Grunewald said of the service Boyd provides to local haulers, provided it’s not abused. Among the theoretical culprits in terms of site location are car wash pits, on the premise that blood from butcher’s vans would be washed down into the holding tank, then pumped out and disposed of elsewhere.
Should another similar dumping incident happen, meanwhile, the privilege could be taken away—the gate locked from outside.
For now at least, that isn’t the case, with dumping prior to 3:30 p.m. allowed on weekdays, while dumping is prohibited after 3:30 p.m. daily and on weekends.
“I’m not blaming anyone,” Grunewlad said of who might be responsible for the dumping the since cleaned up blood.
The Boyd Sanitary plant recently saw blood dumped, throwing off the plant BOD numbers prior to recovery. Photo by Joseph Back.
