Beaver Creek chicken farm had discharged chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River
It's not every day the target of an Environmental Protection Agency enforcement action admits wrongdoing and compliments the EPA employee responsible for the action as a "nice fellow." But that's how Sam Reeves, owner of the Beaver Creek chicken farm in Lincoln Parish, reacted after the agency issued a "cease and desist order" for Beaver Creek to stop discharging chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.
"It was my fault," Reeves said Friday after EPA announced the enforcement action. "I always had control of it before, but I guess this time I didn't clean it up enough. Well, I'm cleaning it up now, and it won't be a problem anymore."
In announcing the enforcement action against Beaver Creek, EPA Regional Administrator Al Amendaris said: "We expect poultry farms to put food on our tables, not waste into our rivers."
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