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Residents rebuke EPD, King America
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Wayne Carney holds a stick with white residue during a public hearing on the Ogeechee River Tuesday evening at Effingham County High School. He blamed the residue and discoloration on discharges from the King America Finishing plant in Screven County. - photo by PATRICK DONAHUE/Effingham Herald
SPRINGFIELD — One by one, speakers told state Environmental Protection Division representatives that the agency wasn’t doing its job and the pollution of the Ogeechee River had to stop. EPD held a public hearing Tuesday night at Effingham County High School on a proposed consent order for King America Finishing, and those in attendance blasted both the company and the state agency. “Your job is to protect the environment,” Connie Hayes said.
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