All options afloat for IP ponds

January 13, 2010

By Charlie Passut | Tidewater News

Published Wednesday, December 2, 2009 

FRANKLIN—While International Paper Co. must decide what to do with the equipment, buildings and infrastructure at its Franklin mill, it must also decide the fate of a network of wastewater-treatment facilities that support the mill, including a large holding pond in Suffolk.

Mark Sauer, an environmental engineer with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, said Tuesday that IP — like all papermaking companies — uses a lot of water to make its products.

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