ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 23, 1996 TAG: 9603250053
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
The State Water Control Board is temporarily relaxing discharge standards from a Suffolk wastewater treatment plant so that Smithfield Foods Inc. will use the plant to treat its wastes.
The state Department of Environmental Quality recommended the action as a means of keeping the meatpacking company from dumping its wastes into the Pagan River. Instead, the wastes will be pumped to the plant operated by the Hampton Roads Sanitation District.
Treating the wastes at the plant will spare the Pagan heavy amounts of fecal coliform, ammonia and other contaminants. However, the influx of wastes at the plant means its outflow into the James River will be too rich in phosphorus.
- Associated Press
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