dirt hugger case study
Facility Design Overview
Client's Requirements
- Low cost
- Flexible design
- Below grade
- Automated temperature control
Our Solution
GMT believed in Dirt Hugger’s mission and agreed to partner with their staff engineers. GMT provided the design expertise and controls equipment while Dirt Huggers performed the CAD work, construction management, and general contracting. The result was a Turned Aerated Pile (TAP) mass bed pad handling 60,000 tons of Source Separated Organics and countless gallons of liquid waste at an extremely affordable price.
Design Features
TAP System
Green / Food Waste
Temperate Climate
Environmental Impact
60,000 Tons/Year Diverted Organics
39,000 Tons/Year Diverted CO2
System Features
Reversing Sparger Aeration System
Turned
Aerated Pile
Below Grade
Aeration
WebMACs
Compost Control
Wireless
Temperature Probes
“Green Mountain Technologies offers simple, cost effective solutions that are practical to implement. They’re really there to work with you and make a solution that fits with your site and your process and your feedstocks. They bring a ton of experience to the table, and that balance of cost versus technology…really finding the sweet spot that worked for us and our site.”
- Pierce Lewis, Co-Founder of Dirthugger TAP Composting Facility, Dallesport WA
