Author: Sammy Fretwell

Food

A foul-smelling, dark discharge is being dumped from the pet food plant into the creek, the state said. Fined by the company.

A dark, foul-smelling liquid leak from a pet food plant has resulted in state enforcement action against the factory after months of investigation and a flurry of complaints about polluted streams in rural South CarolinaThe state’s environmental agency fined SC Pet Food Solutions $20,000 over discharges that state inspectors say took off the property and into a small stream in Saluda County, according to an enforcement document released this week .The stream is a tributary of larger creeks that state records show were contaminated with harmful bacteria last summer. A large creek downstream of the pet food plant – Mine…

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