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‘Rotten egg’ smell leads to $734,000 penalty for C&H Sugar’s refinery in Crockett

C&H Sugar Co., whose Crockett refinery was once considered the world’s largest, will pay $734,000 after releasing a stench that lasted more than a month. The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, which announced the settlement Tuesday, said C&H’s joint treatment plant emitted a smell compared to the odor of rotten eggs and sewage that permeated the East Bay community in 2022. C&H co-owns and operates the Philip F. Meads Water T…
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Local News Matters broke the news in on Friday, October 31, 2025.
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