on June 5, 2018
Mountaire, Delaware enter consent decree over wastewater
Poultry company is fined $42,000 and is required to seek an alternative water source for nearby residents
Mountaire Farms and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) entered into a consent decree that addresses wastewater-related permit violations at its poultry processing operations in Millsboro, Delaware.
Mountaire, in 2017, had been advised by DNREC that it had violated the conditions of its permits to treat…