WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Foster Poultry Farms, to immediately stop all discharges of pollutants into waters of the U.S.
Foster Poultry Farms, doing business as Foster Farms Athens Hatchery, operates a chicken hatchery located approximately two miles east of Athens on the north side of Louisiana Highway 518 in Claiborne Parish.
On Jan. 26, 2012, the EPA inspected the hatchery and found unauthorized discharges of pollutants from its process wastewater lagoon to an unnamed tributary of Leatherman Creek. Leatherman Creek drains into Black Creek Bayou and it in turn drains into the Red River. . .
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