NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Major, expensive improvements to the Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive August fish kill in the Pearl River will begin at the end of the year.
The state Department of Environmental Quality released a timeline last week detailing when the Temple-Inland mill must begin and complete construction of new infrastructure designed to prevent another fish kill.
The mill’s equipment malfunctioned and spilled an unauthorized by-product known as black liquor into the Pearl, depleting oxygen and killing hundreds of thousands of fish and mussels.
 
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