Ethanol Expansion OK'D: City Allows Heartland Grain Fuels to Produce Up to 60 Million Gallons Per Year
Posted on: Friday, 9 June 2006, 06:00 CDT
By Jackie Burke, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.
Jun. 9--Heartland Grain Fuels has been granted a special exemption that will allow the plant to expand and produce more than six times as much ethanol as it does now.
Heartland Grain Fuels -- about two miles west of town -- produces about 9 million gallons of ethanol a year. With the expansion, the plant will produce somewhere between 55 and 60 million gallons a year, General Manager Bill Paulsen said.
The Aberdeen Zoning Board on Thursday approved the special exemption request for gasoline, oil and petroleum products manufacturing, sale and storage under the stipulation that an adequate drainage system be installed.
The plant is planning to replace the existing cooling tower with a larger one. The new addition will be a separate building east of the existing one and will be able to be operated independently, Paulsen said.
The new addition will bring more truck traffic to the plant, but the plant is planning on most ethanol leaving by rail, Paulsen said.
Heartland Grain Fuels neighbor Kevin Moser -- who will be 400 feet from the new addition -- said he is worried about water runoff and smell.
"We will not flood out our neighbors," Paulsen said.
The plant plans to have the water runoff flow along the railroad's right of way, he said.
Heartland Grain Fuels also will spend $1.2 million to control smells that the new addition might emit, Paulsen said. The plant currently does nothing to control the smell because it produces only 9 million gallons per year.
"We can't eliminate all the smells," Paulsen said. "But we'll try to get some of them."
The board of zoning adjustment approved the plan despite Moser's complaints. Zoning board members said the plant was zoned industrial and existed before the Mosers bought their mini-agricultural property.
"The property use is not changing, just the use on that property," Vice Chairman Dan Zumbaum said.
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Source: American News (Aberdeen, S.D.)
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