Kiryas Joel, NY – A slaughterhouse that supplies kosher chicken to Orthodox Jewish markets in New York and New Jersey is waging its second court fight with Orange County over the cost of treating the enormous volume of wastewater the plant discharges each day.
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The Kiryas Joel Poultry Processing Plant has sued in state Supreme Court to challenge a $380,000 annual surcharge the county imposed in May — in addition to $211,000 in regular sewer charges and late fees — because of the added burden of processing “high strength” wastewater in a nearby county-run treatment facility.
Attorneys for the slaughterhouse and affiliated Kiryas Joel Meat Market argue the surcharge is invalid because the county agreed last year not to impose one until the plant’s owners had finished upgrading the equipment used to pretreat its wastewater.
The slaughterhouse, which opened in 2004, now employs 300 people and “serves a significant part of the kosher chicken market in the greater New York and New Jersey area,” according to the court papers filed in Goshen by Manhattan attorney Edward Scarvalone.
Don’t let this be another rubashkin case, we should fight this now and hard once and for all ! It’s either the EPA or PETA !
Looks more like a shul.
Always good neighbors and citizens. They should pay their fair share
Like any other business, they need to comply with local, state and federal regulations.
“in addition to $211,000 in regular sewer charges and late fees “
Why does this business not pay its bills on time? Why does it burden itself with “late fees”?