Pulp Mills
Agitators in the Iroquois Retention Basin
Date: 1972
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. William Brebner
Description: Agitators placed inside the third waste treatment retention basin in Iroquois provide mixing and aeration of liquid waste by increasing the level of oxygen in water. This system was part of the new process put in place to reduce pollution emissions at the Edmundston Fraser pulp mill.
Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Pulp mills, Edmundston