Press Release



For Immediate Release

06/22/2006

Algoma initiates environmental solution for fish scraps

Contact:
(920) 684-0227




June 22, 2006 – ALGOMA, WIS. – The prominent red lighthouse. The boardwalk. The blue-green waters of Lake Michigan stretching to the horizon. These contribute to the pretty-as-a postcard view offered by this community of 3,500 located a half-hour east of Green Bay, Wis.

Algoma, Wis., is claimed to be the busiest sports and commercial fishing harbor on Lake Michigan. The large charter fleet shares the fishing fields with hundreds of personal boats each weekend, all looking for the king and coho salmon and lake trout.

The huge catches of fish generate thousands of pounds of fish scraps. In the past, the waste would be passed through grinders and sent to the Algoma Wastewater Treatment Facility. The large amounts of fish waste caused problems, such as clogged lift stations and excessive organic loading. The Wastewater Treatment Facility was engineered to accommodate a community of 6,000 people. The fish scraps in this city of 3,500 created waste equal to a city of 30,000.

The Algoma Marina Committee realized the problems and worked out a solution by building a facility to recycle that which once was sent to be treated. The new marina fish cleaning station is designed to put waste on a conveyor system to transfer into a cooler. The cooling system maintains the quality of the fish scraps until they are shipped to Dramm Corporation's facility in Algoma. Dramm converts the waste into an environmentally friendly fertilizer called Drammatic®. Drammatic can be used for organic, sustainable or conventional crop production.

A ribbon cutting ceremony for the fish cleaning station will be held at the Algoma Marina on June 29, at 1:30PM. Speakers will include Northeast Regional Director of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Ron Kazmierczak, Algoma Mayor Virginia Haske and Dramm Corporation's Director of Automation Don Guth. A demonstration of the new facility will follow.

Algoma Alderman and Chairman of the Marina Committee Ken Taylor says the Marina Committee is pleased that this new system will greatly reduce the problems at the Wastewater Treatment Facility and that the waste will become a usable product. The future will reveal the savings to the city in treatment costs and the reduction of the odor usually associated with a cleaning station.

Algoma is leading this environmentally sound program by partnering with Dramm to produce a product that will help restore the earth’s biological soil web. The recycling of waste into fertilizer presents a winning combination that should have long lasting impact.

For more information, call Dramm's headquarters in Manitowoc, Wis., at the numbers to the left or e-mail Megan McDonough.





















Press Release



For Immediate Release

06/22/2006

Algoma initiates environmental solution for fish scraps

Contact:
(920) 684-0227




June 22, 2006 – ALGOMA, WIS. – The prominent red lighthouse. The boardwalk. The blue-green waters of Lake Michigan stretching to the horizon. These contribute to the pretty-as-a postcard view offered by this community of 3,500 located a half-hour east of Green Bay, Wis.

Algoma, Wis., is claimed to be the busiest sports and commercial fishing harbor on Lake Michigan. The large charter fleet shares the fishing fields with hundreds of personal boats each weekend, all looking for the king and coho salmon and lake trout.

The huge catches of fish generate thousands of pounds of fish scraps. In the past, the waste would be passed through grinders and sent to the Algoma Wastewater Treatment Facility. The large amounts of fish waste caused problems, such as clogged lift stations and excessive organic loading. The Wastewater Treatment Facility was engineered to accommodate a community of 6,000 people. The fish scraps in this city of 3,500 created waste equal to a city of 30,000.

The Algoma Marina Committee realized the problems and worked out a solution by building a facility to recycle that which once was sent to be treated. The new marina fish cleaning station is designed to put waste on a conveyor system to transfer into a cooler. The cooling system maintains the quality of the fish scraps until they are shipped to Dramm Corporation's facility in Algoma. Dramm converts the waste into an environmentally friendly fertilizer called Drammatic®. Drammatic can be used for organic, sustainable or conventional crop production.

A ribbon cutting ceremony for the fish cleaning station will be held at the Algoma Marina on June 29, at 1:30PM. Speakers will include Northeast Regional Director of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Ron Kazmierczak, Algoma Mayor Virginia Haske and Dramm Corporation's Director of Automation Don Guth. A demonstration of the new facility will follow.

Algoma Alderman and Chairman of the Marina Committee Ken Taylor says the Marina Committee is pleased that this new system will greatly reduce the problems at the Wastewater Treatment Facility and that the waste will become a usable product. The future will reveal the savings to the city in treatment costs and the reduction of the odor usually associated with a cleaning station.

Algoma is leading this environmentally sound program by partnering with Dramm to produce a product that will help restore the earth’s biological soil web. The recycling of waste into fertilizer presents a winning combination that should have long lasting impact.

For more information, call Dramm's headquarters in Manitowoc, Wis., at the numbers to the left or e-mail Megan McDonough.