BCR Manufacturer's Rep Spotlight: Gulf States Engineering

BCR Environmental Corporation applies technology to tackle process-stream challenges in a better way. BCR’s people make that possible, and BCR’s Manufacturer’s Representatives are key to delivering results to our customers. This article is one in a series on our Manufacturer’s Representatives around the country.

In the Gulf States region, BCR is represented by Gulf States Engineering Co. The region consists of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Western Tennessee. Serving municipal and industrial markets since 1967, Gulf States expanded into water and wastewater treatment process equipment in response to growing demand in the early 1980s. 

In their region, landfills aren’t dealing with the same regulations as some other states in the South.  Andy Dressel, who has been with Gulf States for 35 years, focuses on Municipal Water and Sewer Treatment. “Currently many Municipalities are dewatering their bio-solids and are sending them to landfills,” says Dressel. “We’re not seeing new regulations requiring further treatment, but there are limits on how much untreated waste landfills can take.  Some landfills aren’t accepting as much dewatered sludge as they have in the past.  We are seeing some Municipalities deciding to utilize advanced treatment for their biosolids just to have options with disposal.”

“One advantage we see of BCR’s technologies is that they can be added to existing municipal wastewater facilities,” Dressel adds. “The Bio-Scru? dryer can be added to existing technology and provide an end-product that reduces the quantity of material and recovers the nutrients for reuse.  Without adding material to change the PH, the end product is allowed it to be applied on smaller land applications.” 

Customers want to do the right thing for the environment to recover energy and nutrients. However, new technologies can be seen as a luxury unless regulations are driving it. New CleanB? installations can be motivated by the desire to create renewable resources and being able to use the end-product for something more than taking it to a landfill. 

“We’re excited about the CleanB? and Bio-Scru? mobile demo units,” points out Dressel. “It’s easier to believe the end-product from these technologies when you see it with your own eyes and smell it in person.” While it has nothing to do with biosolids compliance, odor control is a growing interest, especially in high-traffic areas where treatment plants are located.  

One of BCR’s strengths is that the technologies are a cost-effective solution from a capital standpoint. Each of the technologies can be added to existing treatment plant facilities rather than needing to replace the entire plant. Lower costs and reduced risk while transforming the way municipalities treat and manage biosolids and organic wastes. That’s BCR Environmental.

You can learn more about BCR’s technologies and demonstrations at https://www.bcrinc.com. Click on the Contact page to contact BCR directly and on https://www.bcrinc.com/representatives/ to find your Regional Manufacturers Representative.