Court Sides With Environmentalists In Ongoing Effort To Clean Up The Chesapeake

July 20, 2010 - A federal court today denied a motion by poultry giant Perdue to dismiss a case brought against it for polluting the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The claims against the Maryland-headquartered company, which are based on the Clean Water Act, were brought by a local environmental organization, the Assateague , and Alliance, an international coalition of grassroots water activists. In the fall of 2009, Coastkeeper and Waterkeeper staff discovered alarming amounts of several pollutants, including e. coli and fecal coliform, pouring from a Perdue-contract factory farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland into local waterways that fed into the Pocomoke River and, ultimately, the highly polluted Chesapeake Bay. The charges against Perdue’s factory farm were filed in January 2010. The Court’s decision means that the case will continue to its next phase of litigation.

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