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Ore. dairy fined $30K for farm waste dumping

The Columbian
Published: April 11, 2011, 12:00am

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon dairy has been fined $30,000 for dumping farm waste into a tributary of the Willamette River.

Attorney General John Kroger announced that Volbeda Dairy pleaded guilty Monday in Linn County Circuit Court to three counts of second-degree unlawful water pollution. The case stems from incidents between January 2009 and May 2010.

The dairy was fined and placed on three years probation.

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