AG’s office obtains $65K judgement in water pollution complaint

By: Eric Heisig//August 29, 2013//

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An Adams County judge ordered a Saukville heifer company to pay $65,000 for violating state water pollution laws, according to a news release from the state attorney general’s office.

Opitz Custom Heifers LLC, according to the attorney general’s office, violated its water pollution discharge permit by not submitting a plan that would manage the manure the cows produced. The company also failed to minimize groundwater contamination by putting the animals on lots with no vegetation.

The attorney general’s office filed the complaint in court in August 2012. A settlement was reached this month between the attorney general’s office and the company, and Adams County Circuit Judge Charles Pollex signed the judgment Aug. 23.

Opitz Custom also must pay to replace a contaminated well for an adjacent property, as well as pay to monitor the groundwater for two years, according to the release.

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