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LOGANTON A large family-owned meat processing business in Clinton County has reopened because, due to snow melt, food processing residuals (FPR) can again be spread on farm fields.
Nicholas Meat reopened fully on March 3, Jana McGuire, a spokesperson for the Loganton area company, said Wednesday.
The plant closed Feb. 23 after a state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a halt to the spread of FPRs on snow-covered fields.
The closing affected more than 350 employees and 150 contract workers.
Training was provided during the shutdown and employees were paid the entire time they were off work, McGuire said.
Nicholas maintains when the Environmental Hearing Board denied its appeal of DEP’s Feb. 9 compliance order it had no alternative but to shut down.
Nicholas Meat can weather a pandemic, but the actual weather is a different story.
The central Pennsylvania meat processing plant temporarily ceased operations at its Loganton plant Feb. 23 following a Department of Environmental Protection compliance order prohibiting the company from applying processing waste to snow-covered fields.
The plant processes about 600 dairy cull cows and bulls each day. Brian Miller, director of sustainability at Nicholas Meat, said DEP has permitted the facility to apply the residual waste, which is mostly wash water, on snowy fields for the last 10 years. But this weekâs order brought the practice to an abrupt halt.
A Loganton company facing disciplinary action by the state Department of Environmental Protection has not been ordered by the agency to shut down its operations
Nicholas Meat can weather a pandemic, but the actual weather is a different story.
The central Pennsylvania meat processing plant temporarily ceased operations at its Loganton plant Feb. 23 following a Department of Environmental Protection compliance order prohibiting the company from applying processing waste to snow-covered fields.
The plant processes about 600 dairy cull cows and bulls each day. Brian Miller, director of sustainability at Nicholas Meat, said DEP has permitted the facility to apply the residual waste, which is mostly wash water, on snowy fields for the last 10 years. But this weekâs order brought the practice to an abrupt halt.
Nicholas Meat halted business after food processing waste on the snow-covered ground in Clinton County. Author: Peggy Lee Updated: 9:52 PM EST February 23, 2021
LOGANTON, Pa. As employees at the Nicholas Meat packing plant left their jobs at the end of the day, they re also leaving the company for the foreseeable future.
Nicholas Meat says it s shuttering operation for the time being after it was found in violation of a State Department of Environmental Protection regulation by putting food processing waste on the snow-covered ground.
Brian Miller is the Director of Sustainability for Nicholas Meat. The DEP allowed us to do that for 10 years up until the day before in early February and then the very following day they issued a notice of violation,” said Miller.