STUDY NUMBER ; 13.1 



ORGANIZATION : Champion International Corporation 



TITLE OF STUDY ; Alternative/ Additional Methods of Treatment 

 to Improve the Quality of Discharge from Champion Interna- 

 tional's Frenchtown, Montana Kraft Paper Mill 



CONTACT; Larry Weeks - Technical Director - Champion 

 International, Missoula - 626-4451 



OBJECTIVE ; Identify and evaluate alternative state-of-the- 

 art waste treatment technologies available for pulp and paper 

 will effluents. 



DURATION ; 1984 - 1986 



CURRENT STATUS ; Champion International hired WESTON, an 

 engineering consulting firm, to review all available waste 

 treatment technologies that could potentially reduce the 

 color, BOD, TSS and nutrient content of their mill's efflu- 

 ent. Starting with 240 title and abstract citations, WESTON 

 screened this list down to eleven potential methodologies. 

 (Other treatment systems were eliminated primarily because 

 they did not have proven records with full- scale application 

 in the pulp and paper industry. ) A detailed evaluation of 

 these eleven technologies was then conducted as to their 

 estimated installation, operation and maintenance costs and 

 their ability to improve the quality of the mill's effluent, 

 i.e. an estimate of the effluent quality expected from these 

 technologies versus the present treatment system. A draft 

 report summarizing WESTON'S findings was published in April, 

 1985: "Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Wastewater 



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