The company that operated the sprawling but shuttered fish processing plant in King Cove must do annual seafloor surveys to check for impacts of waste deposits there and take other corrective actions to protect the marine environment, under civil settlement signed earlier in the year.
The requirement for corrective steps at King Cove is one of the terms of a $750,000 settlement for environmental violations that Peter Pan Seafood Co.’s successor, PSF Inc., paid earlier in the year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.The case concerns the discharge of fish waste at both the Peter Pan King Cove plant and the company’s Valdez plant, which wasAt King Cove, the company was using a broken outfall pipe to send fish waste into receiving waters, the EPA said.
At Valdez, the plant had an outfall that was too shallow, and its fish-waste discharges covered an area much larger than the allowed one-acre “zone of deposit,” according to theThe practices violated the Clean Water Act and date back to 2017 at both plants, according to the complaint. Corrective actions at King Cove are to be undertaken “every year within two months of the processing season’s end” until the termination of the consent decree, according to the document’s wording. The consent decree assigns that duty to Peter Pan, but in its Dec. 5 announcement, the EPA said the responsibility will fall to the company’s successor.closing the King Cove plant
indefinitely. The plant had operated in the community for about a century, and it was key to both the local economy and the source of most of the local tax revenues. The closure has thrown King Cove, a community of about 800 people, into turmoil.Corrective actions are also required at the Valdez plant, under the consent decree’s terms.
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