The slaughterhouse’s practices have long frustrated neighbors, leading to numerous complaints to local police and township officials about intense odors and bloody overflow.
Evelyn King’s view of her Plumstead Township backyard is normally one of green country fields, but one morning in March, it was tainted by thick puddles of blood.
Two weeks after the bloody incident, Kingdom Provisions says it has taken steps to ensure that storm water mixed with blood wouldn’t flow onto King’s property again, according to state investigators. Several Plumstead residents living near Kingdom Provisions described similar problems, citing intense odors, and in one instance, a bloody overflow like what happened to King.Steady rains fell in Pipersville early the week of March 4, several days after Kingdom Provisions began spraying blood from slaughtered animals across a back field that abuts King’s property.
According to Stoltzfus, the slaughterhouse owner, dispersing the animal blood is meant to fertilize the property’s soil with nutrients. Garden supply stores sell “blood meal” as a fertilizer, but it’s typically in a dry powder form. It wasn’t long after the family sold the property to a local company, Plumstead Acquisitions, in 2021 that neighbors began complaining of a frequent stench wafting from the property that the LLC rented to Kingdom Provisions. The slaughterhouse eventually purchased the lot.
Many of those dealt with the open storage of animal remains, contributing to the smells neighbors had complained about, and violating the PADEP’s rules for covering and sealing that type of waste. In one report, the department found an exposed cow carcass that had “bloated due to the heat, causing it to become exposed to the elements,” along with open containers of entrails, heads, and hides.
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