A septic tank failure at a slaughterhouse in Grainger County, Tennessee, that recently was raided by federal agents could be the source of an E. coli outbreak in some local wells.
The slaughterhouse company Southeastern Provision is being investigated after 97 undocumented immigrants were discovered working at the plant. The owner of the company is accused of paying them in cash to avoid taxes.
However, it also was discovered in March that a septic tank used to store the plant’s wastewater had failed. The owner says he’d planned to haul sewage to a Greeneville treatment plant, but
