KELSO, Wash. – Foster Farms faces a $44,000 penalty for releasing untreated chicken processing wastewater from its Kelso processing facility on June 6, 2015, to the Three Rivers Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, and not reporting it in a timely manner, as required, according to a report from the Washington state Department of Ecology.
The treatment plant was overwhelmed by the volume of the waste and some of it reached the Columbia River.
State water quality regulations require Foster Farms to pre-treat its wastewater before it is discharged to the Three Rivers treatment plant. The event was a violation of. . .
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