Processing Building - Environmental Recovery Corporation of PA (ERC) - Environmental Recovery Corporation of PA (ERC)

Processing Building

ERC's trucks or outside haulers will pass through a radiation monitor which tests for radio active contaminants. Once the hauler is cleared the truck will go to the staging area for processing. All drivers will be logged in with the trucking manifest. An ERC employee takes a composite sample from the truck to the lab for testing. After lab approval the truck is brought into the pump station for unloading into the correct tank(s) for processing.

After testing the best process for the waste is determined:

Treatable water

Non-treatable water

Oils & Sludges

Special Processes

The non-hazardous fluids will be pumped into either a pre-treatment tank, oil storage tank or water treatment tank. All fluids are pumped through filters and debris will be filtered out.

Treatable water will go through the process without any pre-treatment into 20k gallon settling tanks then moved to a feed tank (50k gallon). The entire process from unloading, separation and processing will take aprox. 24 hours.

Untreatable or emulsions are irrigated into a Pre-treatment tank. Heat and chemicals are introduced to separate the water and oil then renders the untreatable water into treatable water to go into the treatable water process.

ERC features aproximatly 665,000 gallons of fluid storage in the processing building. The building features containment construction in case of any leaks or spills.