Kansas - Orval Kent Food Company Inc.

Company:

Orval Kent Food Company Inc.

Penalty:

$422,500

Year:

2011

Date:

January 31, 2011

Offense Group:

environment-related offenses

Primary Offense:

environmental violation

Violation Description:

An Illinois food processing company has agreed to pay a $390,000 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that its Baxter Springs, Kan., processing facility overloaded the city's wastewater treatment system with millions of gallons of industrial wastewater, at times causing pollution along a 22-mile-long section of the Spring River in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. Orval Kent Food Company Inc., headquartered in Wheeling, Ill., must also spend at least $32,500 on a project to re-stock fish in or near the watershed of the Spring River, under terms of a consent decree lodged in Kansas City, Kan., by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Level of Government:

federal

Action Type:

agency action

Agency:

Environmental Protection Agency referral to the Justice Department

Civil or Criminal Case:

civil

Facility State:

Kansas

Facility City:

Baxter Springs

Source of Data:

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/food-processor-pay-390000-penalty-illegal-wastewater-discharges-kansas-oklahoma-river (archived copy)

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