The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered C&H Sugar Company to follow the federal Clean Water Act, which the company allegedly violated at least three times at its Crockett facility by discharging sugar into the Carquinez Strait.
The order — called an administrative order on consent — also includes accusations of failure to properly operate and maintain a wastewater system, failure to implement the company’s stormwater pollution prevention plan fully, and violations of the refinery’s effluent limitations.
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