The environmental impacts of plant operations and disposal practices have created many new challenges for today's food and beverage manufacturers. To help address these challenges, CDM offers nearly 60 years of experience in the planning, evaluation, design, construction, and operation of waste treatment facilities. Our design and construction experience encompasses a wide variety of treatment process types and facilities for primary, secondary, and advanced levels of treatment for completely new construction, as well as for rehabilitation, expansion, and upgrade of existing facilities. CDM's comprehensive wastewater services include waste stream characterization, treatability studies, treatment and disposal alternatives analyses, effluent toxicity evaluations, permitting, facility and process design, construction management, training, operations and maintenance, facility optimization/ operating cost minimization, reuse/recycle strategies, water treatment, and water reuse and minimization to meet regulatory requirements and maximize overall plant efficiency.