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Fort Scott commissioners move to stop ADM industrial waste after repeated contract breaches
Summary
After months of elevated industrial wastewater readings and the removal of an on-site treatment contractor, the Fort Scott City Commission authorized the city manager to refuse industrial loads that exceed contract limits and temporarily suspended all ADM industrial discharges pending negotiations on new terms.
The Fort Scott City Commission voted unanimously to stop taking industrial waste from ADM unless the company meets new conditions the city will demand, and to temporarily suspend ADM’s industrial discharges while staff negotiates a revised contract.
Commissioners approved a pair of motions directing the city manager to accept only domestic loads and to present ADM with a written contract that would require mechanical dredging of the municipal lagoons, provision of a 260,000‑gallon holding tank, and payment for any pretreatment chemicals or monitoring the city must supply. Commissioners also voted to temporarily suspend ADM’s industrial waste deliveries until the city manager and wastewater director can communicate the city’s expectations and secure a…
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