Emails reveal that DEC knew for weeks how toxic cheesemaker's wastewater was

The Buffalo News featured the expertise of Corey Krabbenhoft in a report on how dairy wastewater discharge from Great Lakes Cheese in Franklinville killed tens of thousands of fish and other aquatic wildlife in Ischua Creek last August. “Ammonia is known to be toxic to organisms,” she said. “Aquatic organisms can withstand short periods of high ammonia – flowing waters, rivers, especially, are dynamic, anyway, so these numbers can go up and down. But if it’s at really high levels like this for a sustained period of time, that’s going to push things past what their physiology can keep up with.”