LDEQ puts Atalco refinery on notice for ‘red mud’ leaks. Fines to be determined.

LDEQ puts Atalco refinery on notice for ‘red mud’ leaks. Fines to be determined.

The Atalco alumina refinery in Gramercy suffered numerous levee breaches around its red mud waste lakes, sending arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic chemicals into public areas and waterways for a period of several months. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator)A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic heavy …

LDEQ puts Atalco refinery on notice for red mud leaks. Fines to be determined.

A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic heavy metals into public areas and waterways.Atlantic Alumina, also known as Atalco, is facing dozens of environmental violations stemming from breaches that occurred last year in the giant levees of its waste containment lakes at its aluminum oxide refinery near Gramer…