Federal prosecutors say a New York slaughterhouse that supplies kosher chicken to Orthodox Jews discharged chicken parts and other waste into storm drains and sewers.
The U.S. attorney’s office announced a civil lawsuit and proposed settlement Thursday. It said the Kiryas Joel Poultry Processing Plant Inc. admitted violating the federal Clean Water Act between 2008 and 2012.
The company agreed to pay a $330,000 fine, devise a corrective plan and record its future operations.
An official with the Environmental Protection Agency said the plant in Orange County disposed of chicken parts directly into storm drains and polluted two tributaries of the Ramapo River.
The settlement will not be final for 30 days to allow public comment.
(AP)
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CWA is easy to sidestep. Just have people chucking the junk in by hand. Then there’s no “point source”.
Re comment no. 1: First of all, under your proposal, YOU would be the point source, along with the processing plant. And exactly what is your point? That polluting a river should be lawful?
Why not just recognize that the operators of the slaughterhouse have committed a chillul Hashem and should pay up and fix up.
smart move by paying the fine and walking away from this. appealing the fine and fighting the govt b’haymos would have cost them money in lawyer fees.