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Port Wentworth, Ga.

The environmental management system at this mill is registered to ISO 14001. This mill is certified to the SFI procurement standard.

Mill Data
Per ton of production
Category Indicator 2010 Performance
Air emissions Nitrogen oxide compounds (pounds) 6.5
Particulate matter (pounds) 0.7
Sulfur oxide compounds (pounds) 2.9
Total reduced sulfur (pounds) 0.17
Water quality1 Wastewater discharged (thousands of gallons) 28.5
Total suspended solids (pounds) 11.2
Biochemical oxygen demand (pounds) 3.3
Adsorbable organic halides (AOX) (pounds) 0.32
Residuals management Landfilled or lagooned (pounds)
Beneficially applied to land (pounds) 199
Other beneficial use (pounds)
Burned for energy (pounds) 5,163
Disposed as hazardous waste (pounds) 0.001
  1. Port Wentworth treats the industrial wastewater from Imperial Sugar's Savannah Facility. In 2010, the Imperial Sugar Facility was restarted after an extended outage and had many startup issues which resulted in elevated BOD and TSS releases for the year.

Last updated June 10, 2011.