Chino Dairy Fined in Cow Manure Flow
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday fined Beranna Dairy of Chino $48,000 for contaminating a tributary of the Santa Ana River with an overflow of cow manure, which violates the Clean Water Act.
Federal officials said they believe the contamination never seeped past the Prado Dam in Riverside County and did not reach the Pacific Ocean.
Alexis Strauss, director of the EPA’s southwest office’s water division, said that the dairy had changed ownership since the violations, and that the new owner has initiated a number of improvements to prevent overflows. The name of the former dairy owner and dates of the violations were unavailable Tuesday. The EPA began its investigation in March 2000.
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