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What's being discharged into the Ogeechee River?
Riverkeeper: Plant may be in violation of state permit
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A pipe from the King America Finishing plant on the Screven County side of the Ogeechee River was photographed discharging a dark, blue-black liquid July 16. Ogeechee Riverkeeper Diannna Widencamp is pictured in the river at the site of the pipe.
The Ogeechee Riverkeeper organization is considering legal action against the Georgia Environmental Protection Division due to possible lack of enforcement regarding wastewater dumped into the Ogeechee River by a Screven County textiles plant. Attention was drawn to the plant in May after an extensive fish kill that covered about 70 miles of the river south of the King America Finishing, a textiles treatment plant in Dover. According to the state EPD agency, tests proved the more than 36,000 fish died of columnaris, a bacterial disease caused by environmental stress.
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