Update April 2012: Ogeechee Riverkeeper (ORK) filed an appeal in Superior Court of Bulloch County. The organization appealed an administrative law judge’s decision which prevented Ogeechee Riverkeeper from challenging a Consent Order entered into between the State and King America Finishing in Screven County, GA. King America Finishing’s discharge into the Ogeechee River has been associated with the biggest fish kill in Georgia history.
QUICK LINKS:
Click here to view the appeal of the Consent Order.
Click here to see EPD's Consent Order with King America Finishing.
Click here to see Judge Oakley's decision on Standing.
Click here to read Ogeechee Riverkeeper's appeal of Judge Oakley's decision.
Statesboro, GA -- On April 18, 2012 Ogeechee Riverkeeper (ORK) filed an appeal in Superior Court of Bulloch County. The organization appealed an administrative law judge’s decision which prevented Ogeechee Riverkeeper from challenging a Consent Order entered into between the State and King America Finishing in Screven County, GA. King America Finishing’s discharge into the Ogeechee River has been associated with the biggest fish kill in Georgia history.
Atlanta, GA: On March 20, 2012, a judge in Atlanta ruled that citizens have no right to challenge the state’s handling of the largest fish kill in Georgia’s history. Ogeechee Riverkeeper, represented by the public interest law firm, GreenLaw, and the environmental law firm, Stack & Associates, had filed a legal challenge to the state environmental agency’s handling of the largest fish kill in state history. While Judge Lois Oakley, who issued the decision, found that Ogeechee Riverkeeper members were injured by the fish kill, she nevertheless rejected their case finding that Ogeechee Riverkeeper could not show that its members had been harmed by the agency’s decision
9/21/2011 - The State Environmental Protection Division issued a consent order addressing violations from a plant on the Ogeechee River that is likely responsible for the massive fish kill that occurred in May of this year. The consent order requires King America Finishing, which operates a woven fabric finishing plant located on the Ogeechee River, to do a Supplemental Environmental Project worth $1 million.
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