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CSPA AdvisoryCSPA Advisory June 10, 2010CSPA Sues North State Rendering
The lawsuit alleges that wastes discharged from the facility egregiously exceed allowable standards and benchmarks for total suspended solids, specific conductivity, chemical oxygen demand and biochemical oxygen demand. It further alleges the facility has failed to: 1) develop and implement standard Best Available and Best Conventional Treatment Technologies, 2) develop and implement an adequate Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, 3) develop and implement an adequate Monitoring and Reporting Program and 4) truthfully certify its annual reports. The action asks the court to: 1) declare North State Rendering to be in violation of the law; 2) enjoin defendants from discharging pollutants to surface waters and from further violating the substantive and procedural requirements of the permit; and 3) order North State Rendering to immediately implement pollution control and treatment technologies, comply with monitoring and reporting requirements, prepare a legally adequate stormwater pollution plan, take appropriate actions to restore the quality of waters impaired by their its activities, pay civil penalties for each day of violation and reimburse CSPA the costs of bringing the complaint. Jackson & Tuerck and the Law Offices of Andrew Packard are representing CSPA in this matter. |