BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued $475,000 in penalties to Great Lakes Cheese following a massive fish kill at Ischua Creek last month, it announced Monday.

The DEC had previously said that laboratory results suggested that water collected from the creek downstream of the Franklinville facility in late August had “levels of nitrite and ammonia in the water that are toxic to fish and other aquatic life.” As part of the order, the DEC is requiring "significant operational changes and full compliance with water quality, air quality, and chemical and petroleum requirements."

"Great Lakes Cheese violated the environmental laws and permits in place to protect the region’s precious natural resources and under Governor Kathy Hochul’s d

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