Treatment of Pork Processing Wastewater in a Covered Anaerobic Lagoon With Gas Recovery

The anaerobic lagoon process has been used in wastewater treatment for nearly 50 years. The first deliberate application of the process was reported to beat Werribee in Australia in 1940. ¹ Among the earliest applications of the anaerobic lagoon process to meat packing wastes was by the Swift Company beginning in 1955. ²