Great Lakes Cheese

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has ordered Great Lakes Cheese to pay $475,000 for its discharges into Ischua Creek near Franklinville, which touched off a large fish and animal die-off and polluted the waterway this past summer.

The more than $518 million investment makes it the largest infrastructure investment in the family and employee-owned company's history, and the largest economic development project in the history of Cattaraugus County.

Hundreds of Southern Tier jobs are saved and hundreds more eventually will be added, while local cows continue providing raw milk with a deal to build a new cheese factory in Franklinville.

Apparently, there is still a possible future for a giant cheese factory and warehouse planned for Allegany County.Great Lakes Cheese wants to build a new…