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Agricultural effluent treatment on a working pig farm
Agricultural effluent from livestock operations carries high organic and bacterial loading that needs ongoing management.
LocationSouth Africa
Product usedBaczyme Sewage Powder
Project overview
Site challenge and treatment summary.
Agricultural effluent from livestock operations carries high organic and bacterial loading that needs ongoing management.
- Initial problem
- A working pig farm required treatment of agricultural effluent.
- Baczyme product used
- Baczyme Sewage Powder
- Dosage
- 5 kg of Baczyme Sewage Powder was dosed per megalitre daily. Biological treatment was applied to the farm's effluent system.
- Treatment period
- Not specified in source brief
Site conditions
What Baczyme was responding to.
- Working pig farm effluent system.
Treatment objectives
What the programme aimed to support.
- Reduce E. coli in farm effluent
Before and after
Reported project progression.
These notes summarise the before-and-after information available for this specific Baczyme project.
99.7% E. coli reduction achieved.
Reported outcomes
99.7% E. coli reduction was achieved.
Test results or documents
Reduction percentage as stated in the approved copy brief; laboratory attribution not specified in the source.
Project significance
Why this project matters.
This project extends Baczyme's case studies into agricultural effluent treatment, beyond municipal, estate and hospitality sites.
Related product
Baczyme Sewage Powder
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