Dairy Waste System Improvements / Stephenson County, Illinois

This facility began planning efforts for facility improvements at their 800 cow dairy facility through development of a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP) including planning to address resource concerns including EPA inspections.

MSI developed a CNMP and provided conceptual planning/design, quantities estimate, opinion of probable construction costs, design and development of project plans and specifications, and construction phase services. Improvements designed and constructed included earthen waste storage pond, compacted clay liner, subsurface perimeter drainage system, liner protection, reinforced concrete waste transfer scrape alleys, waste transfer gravity pipelines, clean water diversions, and feed/commodity storage area improvements.

Facility features include milking parlor, holding pen, freestall and calving barns, feed center, reclaimed solids separation system for bedding, flume and transfer pumps, reinforced concrete reception tanks, a heated-methanogenic plug flow digester with 260 kW CHP with 1.5 MBTU hot water heat recovery, solids stacking pad, two earthen holding ponds, reinforced concrete scrape alleys, clay liner, gravity pipelines, clean water diversions, perimeter drainage for ground water interception/control.