Hilmar Cheese asks for more time to clean up groundwater pollution

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HILMAR -- Hilmar Cheese Co., the world's largest cheese plant, could be allowed to continue polluting local groundwater at its Hilmar plant for another two years, according to a Dec. 8 draft order from the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board.

If state water regulators grant the company an extension of its 4-year-old pollution cleanup agreement, as is stated in the draft order, the company would have until 2011 to become fully compliant and treat 100 percent of its waste. December 2009 had been the previous deadline.

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