Mary’s Chicken sewage overwhelmed Fresno-area city with ‘rotten eggs and poop’ smell
For years, residents of the Fresno County city of Sanger endured foul, overbearing odors caused by a wastewater treatment plant stressed by immense amounts of raw sewage from the nearby Pitman Family Farms chicken processing plant. … The city of Sanger failed to fully enforce a state-required wastewater pretreatment program for industrial dischargers like Pitman Family Farms for more than two decades, a Fresno Bee investigation has found. … For this investigation, The Bee interviewed regional water regulators, city officials, wastewater experts and reviewed hundreds of pages of city and state reports.
Other agricultural water impact news:
- Bay City News (Santa Rosa, Calif.): New rules limit vineyard runoff in Mendocino and Sonoma counties to protect waterways
- KRON (San Francisco): CDFW sweeps illegal cannabis farms operating on sensitive NorCal habitats
- The Washington Post: Drought has squeezed the U.S. cattle supply and pushed up prices. And now consumers have to deal with tariff shock.
