Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Eden Valley Poultry Inc. (EVP), located in Berwick, Nova Scotia, is a poultry processing plant that processes and markets chicken and turkey for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island farmers. The company processes approximately 80,000 to 100,000 chickens four days per week and 7,000 to 21,000 turkeys one day per week. In this sector of activities which is currently under increasing pressure to improve wastewater treatment, EVP produces on average 1,000,000L of wastewater daily, while the cost of treating wastewater is increasing with more stringent environmental discharge requirements and rising power cost. Over the years, EVP has struggled with fulfilling these requirements with the existing wastewater treatment processes in their facility. This results in an increasingly high operational cost. The company is therefore seeking NSCC's support to address these issues by enabling a balance between reduced operating costs (enhanced energy efficiency) and environmentally appropriate treatment to achieve the required effluent quality criteria. This is important to maintain sustainability of the industry and can prove invaluable in many other cities and communities across Canada, where treatment of wastewater is either insufficient or non-existent.