Sewage from Grand Island JBS plant contaminates Platte, Wood rivers
Jan. 8, 2024
A state agency says a failure at a JBS wastewater facility sent millions of gallons of sewage away from the plant and into the Platte and Wood rivers.
The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy said in a press release that an anaerobic wastewater lagoon breached early Saturday morning. Four million gallons of wastewater discharged from the lagoon. Two million gallons left the property and went into a ditch that leads into the Wood River. By 3 p.m. Saturday NDEE inspectors observed the waste water in the Wood River. And on Sunday inspectors observed the sewage in the Platte River, some 15 miles river miles from the JBS plant.
