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Greeley-based Swift Beef Co. has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the federal Clean Water Act and Nebraska law at the company’s Grand Island beef plant.
A news release from the U.S. Department of Justice says violations occurred several times since 2006. Authorities say the plant discharged pollutants beyond permitted levels to the Grand Island wastewater treatment plant and directly into the Wood River.
The Justice Department says Swift already has spent more than $1 million at the plant to cut the release of pollutants.
Swift Beef is a subsidiary of JBS SA, a Brazilian company. A spokesman for JBS USA in Greeley, Colo., did not immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press.
