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Eastern Shore chicken plant faces threat of lawsuit over water pollution


Three local environmental groups say they plan to sue the owner of the Linkwood, Maryland, rendering facility over waste it discharges into the Transquaking River, a Chesapeake Bay tributary.
The Dorchester County facility, owned by Winchester, Va.-based Valley Proteins, takes byproducts of the chicken industry  blood, feathers, heads and other body parts  and processes them into protein for animal food. Over the last five years, the facility has been cited for numerous significant  violations of the Clean Water Act and was fined a total of $5,000 by state regulators, according to an Environmental Protection Agency database.
The three environmental groups ShoreRivers, Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation  issued the notice of intent to sue April 13. ....

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$13 million wastewater grant to private company spurs debate in Maryland


Valley Proteins is a chicken rendering plant located east of Cambridge, MD. Dave Harp
Maryland regulators want to give nearly $13 million to a private company to help it clean up nutrient pollution from an Eastern Shore chicken rendering plant it owns that has a history of discharge violations.
Officials with the Maryland Department of the Environment say the grant to Valley Proteins, Inc., will help it achieve an extraordinary level of wastewater treatment for such a facility and improve the health of the Transquaking River, a 23-mile-long Chesapeake Bay tributary into which the plant discharges. The river has been classified since 1996 as impaired by nutrients. ....

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