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Attached is the Willow Island application for a total plant Effluent Permit. The data in the application are the sane which w: presented to you a* a draft at our inforaal March 10th meting in ' Charleston. In addition, we have included in our pernit applicAticn photographs of the important features of our facilities and a sap show
ing the overall plant layout.
Our total plant effluent application follows the fom suggested
in your Kay h, 1959, outline. During intervals when plant operations ap proach present equipment capacity our waste lead will increase, but should not exceed the aaxisua shown in Table Bo. 1 of our application. .
It is understood that on the effective date of the new pernit
all existing permits for segments of our operation will be revoked.* We
will continue our regular waste-load reporting to the State Water Re
sources Commission and. In accordance with our discussions, the lead
and chromium results will be added.
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It was a pleasure nesting with you and Mr. Oillenwater in Charleston on March 10th, and I wish to thank you again for the courtesies extended to Dr. Ervin, Mr. Cherry, and myself. We appreciate your interest
in our operation and I an sure that from our discussions we both have a better understanding of the problems with which we are mutually concerned.
Very truly yours,
AMERICAS CIAHAMID COMPUTE
A. C. Fennimore T Plant Manager
EFFLUENT PERMIT APPLICATION
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AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY ORGANIC CHEMICALS DIVISION
WILLOW ISLAND, WEST VIRGINIA
Existing Waste Treatment Facilities
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The principal sewerage system at the American Cyanamid Company's
plant in Willow Island, West Virginia, collects process effluents, sanitary
sewage and storm water from all hut one manufacturing department in the
plant and transports the combined flow to a compositing lagoon for treatment.
This treatment unit consists of an earthen basin having a surface area of about
7, 2 acres and a capacity of approximately 27. 5 million gallons. The basin
permits the varying constituents in the influent wastes'to coneutralize, co
precipitate and settle. As a result, most of the suspended solids are removed and free mineral acidity is eliminated. In addition* a,reduction in organic
content is also accomplished.
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The wastes in the lagoon pass under a skimming baffle and over a
weir equipped for continuous flow measurement. The effluent from this
treatment system spills into a mixing chamber and down a cascade, after
which it flows about 0. 5 mile and enters the Ohio River approximately at
Milepoint 162.0.
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Fermentation waste liquors from the manufacture of pharmaceu
tical and antibiotic products as well as the sanitary sewage and codling waters from this department receive treatment in a separate installation.
These wastes are metered, aerated, settled and biologically treated on
high rate trickling filters. Tl,ie effluents from this plant and from the
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lagoon combine in the mixing chamb er and are chlorinated when necessary to insure stability of the wastes as they flow to the Ohio River.
All of the process waste# leave the plant through the single outlet described as Outfall No. 1. Approximately at Milepoiat 161.0 one additional outfall exists which discharges wash waters sad storm water drainage from a fly ash settling basin and which is herein designated as Outfall Me. 2. Walter Quality Constituents Outfall No. i
The following water quality constituents are known or estimated to be present in the wastes discharged at Outfall No. 1. Whenever possible, the best estimate of the average amounts and ranges of each constituent is
listed
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Outfall No. 1 > < ; :
Description
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Type of Flow - Process, Sanitary and Storm Water : Si*e - 2-56" Vitrified Tile Pipes Encased in Concrete Elevation Above Sea Level - Pipe Invert: 600 it.; Cascade Bottom: 588 ft . Milepoint - 162. 0
Water Quality Constituent S Quantity of Flow (m. g. d.)
""Alkalinity (lb. /day) * Calcium* (lb. /day) * Chloride (lb. /day) * Chromium* (p.p.m.) ' Hardness (lb./day)
Lead* (p.p.m.) Iron (lb. /day) Nitrogen, Ammonia (lb. /day) Nitrogen, Organic (lb./day) ' Oxygen, Biochemical Demand (lb. /day) '/ Oxygen, Chemical Demand (lb. /day) Oxygen, Dissolved (p.p.m.) 'pH Sodium* (lb./day) " Solids, Settleable (ml. /liter) -Solids, Suspended (lb./day) - Solids, Total (lb. /day) ' Sulfate (lb./day)
Minimum Average
3.0 10,000
800.
4.2 35,000 ; 2,000
2, 000
4, 300
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2, 000
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5, 200 <2 |
i50 2, 500
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5,000
15,000
4,000
8,200
10,000
18,000
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5.0 5, 000
SL0 10,000
0 0. 3
1, 500
3,500
50,000 , 79,600
10,000
31,600
Maximum 5,6
75,000 3, 600
\ 8,000 <3 , 9.000 <3
400 15, 000 !: 5, ooo . 25,000 55,000 * 8.0 ; 15,000
2.0 ` 14,000 120,000
45,000
^Estimated values based on limited analytical data.
General Waste Characteristics
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On January 1, 1960, the Willow Island Plant was equipped to <
manufacture six classes of products, five of which contribute process '
wastes to the treatment systems. The following description will serve, to define the chemicals which may be present in the waste streams from
each manufacturing department:
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1. Aniline Department
, Aniline is produced in this department. The wastes consist of
wash waters and strippings containing inorganic ammonium salts and
small amounts of aniline and mononitrobenzene.
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2. Melamine Department
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Melamine is produced in this department. The wastes consist
of distillation column residues containing methanol, ammonia, caustic and
organic nitrogen in the form of triazine ring compounds.
3. Pigments Department
Inorganic pigments such as iron blue, chrome green and chrome
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yellow are produced in this department. The wastes consist of filtrates
and press washings containing sulfuric acid, acetic acid, acetates, nitrates
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and small amounts of iron, chromium and lead.
4. Synthetic Organic Chemicals Department
Organic products such as brighteners, folic acid, choline salts,
nitrophenide, ultraviolet absorbers and intermediates for pharmaceuticals
and dyes are produced in this department. The wastes consist of spent
mother liquors, filtrates, distillation column residues and wash waters.
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t They contain inorganic sodium salfs, inorganic acids, and miscellaneous organic compounds such as acetone, methanol, acetic afcid and organic
1 byproduct residues.
I 5. Fermentation Department Fermentation products such as unrefined^chlortetracycline ,
I (Aureomycin), animal feed supplements and riboflavin are produced in
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I this department. The wastes consist of filtrates containing indefinable, byproducts from a fermentation medium composed of carbohydrates, corn i
I steep liquor, antifoam oil and miscellaneous trace elements. ;
1 6. Catalyst Department
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.Alumina based catalysts are produced in this department. ,No
liquid process wastes are discharged from these operations, i
Chemical Constituents - Outfall No. 1
Estimates of the major chemical constituents which may enter
existing treatment facilities have been listed in Table No. 2. These
figures have been determined by estimating and analyzing, wherever
V l. possible, the individual effluent streams from each department. The
wastes are modified during passage through the treatment plants and S'
the exact chemical composition of the combined effluents from these
units cannot be measured by existing analytical procedures.
The data contained in Table No. 2 can be used for indicative
purposes only to show what compounds might be present in the final
plant wastes. However, Table No. 1 can be used for control since the
I results can be substantiated by standard analytical methods.
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Organic Constituent Acetates (lb./day) Acetone (lb. /day) Aniline (lb. /day) Fermentation Byproducts
Methanol (lb./day) Mononitrobenzene (lb. /day) Nitrates (Ib./day) Organic Acids (lb,/day) Triazine Ring Nitrogen (lb./dav
F&ulfc li
Outfall No, ',1 Minimum 2, 100
, Average 4, 500
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500 1, 500 3,000
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<20
Unknown composition - treated
biologically
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13,000 ?
3,000
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6,000 *
100 ; ;
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10,000
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3,000 ; 30,000 5
Waste Constituents - Outfall No. 2
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The following inforrr.af.cn pertains to the discharges from the fly
ash settling basin through Outfall No. 2.
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Table 111
Outfall No, 2
Description
Type of Flow - Wash and Storm Water Sjfze - 20" Iron Pipe Elevation Above Sea Level - 590 ft. Milepoint - 161.0
Minimum
Average
Maximum
Quantity of Flow (g. p. d.)
Solids, S ettleabl e (ml./liter ^Estimated values based or. limited analytical data.
'90,000
Undetermined.
`Will Vary with
.quantity of stor
water run-off.
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