The owner of a private industrial wastewater pretreatment facility called Klean Waters in Orange, California, has been indicted for breaking environmental laws and dumping untreated toxic wastewater into an Orange County sewer system.
The owner, along with the company, is charged with participating in a conspiracy and discharging without a permit into a publicly owned treatment works.The indictment alleges that the problems date back to the company’s establishment in 2012 and include discharging wastewater that was not pretreated adequately, failing to perform self-monitoring and preparing accurate reports, making false statements about discharges, tampering with monitoring devices placed by the Orange County Sanitary District, and
News Briefs: Private WWTP Indicted for Years of Illegal Discharges Into Sewer
Also in this week's sewer and water news, the American West is preparing for its first possible water shortage declaration, as the Bureau of Reclamation forecasts that the man-made lakes storing water will fall to historically low levels
Apr 20, 2021
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