My neighbor's company has been commisioned to clean up the site of an old meat processing plant, closed for years, opened in 1924. In one of the buildings is a swimming pool of blood. How do you dispose of that?
Buy a football field of Band-Aid? Just curious.
Im not calling you a liar but closed for years and still wet with blood don't seem like a likely combination.
Bio Haz remediation. Probably not cheap. I'm gonna guess a lot of bleach added and then removed via a sucker truck. The same trucks that empty grease traps, etc. The guy running the truck will be all suited up.
There are slaughter houses elsewhere that still product a lot of blood daily. There must be some standard practice for its removal.
Blood meal for fertilizer?
A crap ton of hydrogen peroxide?
I'm assuming that it's dry since it's been closed for awhile
summon the old gods
WilD said:summon the old gods
This right here is pretty much the only logical idea.
I bet it smells offal.
WilD said:summon the old gods
Have a rave first though.
I bet a craigslist ad in the musicians section would have hoards of death metal kids offering to haul it away by the bucket full.
If it's been closed for years I would think the blood has congealed by now, in which case they'll probably haul it to a hazardous waste dump or incinerator.
Modern processing plants often have their own wastewater pretreatment plant that deals with that sort of thing before it hits the regular sanitary sewer. In some cases it's sent to sanitary without pretreatment, but that depends on an agreement with the local municipality and they typically pay a premium for their sewer service.
I never heard or use the word Wet. Still, WTH?
It can be burned? I dunno, what do hospitals & morticians do? Not my issue, just curious as hell.
Dan
Pretty sure it just goes down the drain like other bodily things. Didn't i learn that here from you people?
Post a Craigslist/Marketplace ad looking for vampires. Problem solved.
When I was a kid the local tanning plant dumped it into the Potomac river one night a week. Might be frowned upon now. When I was doing disaster clean up one of the worst jobs was a pork rind factory that flooded. They used pump trucks to clean out the blood and fat traps after it started too harden near the bottom they mixed it with some kind of chemical too keep vacuuming it out.
Ask your neighbor what is he going to do and lets us know, please.
slantvaliant (Forum Supporter) said:I bet it smells offal.
Funny you should say that, when it was in operation, it did smell offal at times. Other times, it smelled delicious. My grandparents were downwind some days. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house, and went to elementary school not far from there.
The location of the plant.
Also amusing is that there was a munitions plant not far away that had radiological contamination issues in the surrounding area.
It's just a grassy field, now.
Yeah, that's the place Brett. NL Industries is still a grassy field, locals don't go near it.
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