By Jenni Grubbs, TheFort Morgan Times
Western Sugar Cooperative is taking three new measures to deal with the particularly foul odor that has frustrated Fort Morgan residents for quite a few months, according to Heather Luther, vice president and general counsel.
One of those is using a very strong commercial deodorizer on the ponds, called Odor Blast, she said, adding that it was “installed Monday.” The second is adding a cooling tower for reusing water from the plant, and the third is a new filtration process.
These are the latest in a succession of ideas the plant has been trying to seek to lessen and prevent the odor, which is caused by sugar content left in the water being stored in the plant’s ponds and bacteria feeding on it and then producing smelly waste from it.
What was frustrating, she said, was that several of the things they tried previously did not work. The unsuccessful attempts included adding aerators and percolators to create bubbles in the ponds and speed up evaporation, along with adding various other deodorizing products.
“It’s not that we’re not doing anything,” Luther said, although those earlier measures did not really solve the overall problem. “Ultimately, we said, ‘That’s not working. We’ve got to add more steps.'”
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