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LIGHTLIFE FOODS (GREENLEAF FOODS SPC)

Administrative - Formal · FY2020 · — · — · 3602093873

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
01-2020-2024
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On January 24, 2020, Region 1 issued a Clean Water Act Administrative Compliance Order (Order) to Greenleaf Foods, SPC (d/b/a Lightlife Foods) for violations of pretreatment regulations and, specifically, for low pH discharges to the Town of Montague, Massachusetts� sewer system. The company operates a food manufacturing facility and discharges wastewaters to the Town�s publicly operated treatment works in violation of the pH pretreatment standard. Wastewaters with a pH less than 5.0 S.U. have the potential to corrode piping in both the collection system and treatment plant. The order requires that the company achieve compliance with the pH pretreatment standard. The Region coordinated closely with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

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