JBS accused of dumping waste into South Platte tributary

GREELEY — A recently filed lawsuit accuses JBS USA, a Greeley-based meat processing giant, of dumping slaughterhouse waste into a South Platte River tributary near Greeley.

The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver by Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit conservation organization.

JBS USA subsidiary JBS Swift Beef Co. is named as the defendant in the case.

“At its Lone Tree Wastewater Treatment Facility in Greeley, Colorado, Swift Beef accepts and treats wastes from two animal slaughterhouses and then discharges the effluent into Lone…