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1/9/2025
WT Staff
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January 9, 2025 113 pm PST
CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2012; Case ID# CR_2366(California)
Metal plating business claims no industrial wastewater, principal sent to prison 2 years for illegal acidic discharge
One of 72 Clean Water Act Criminal Prosecutions in the State of California (from 1989-2023)
The defendants in this case are two individuals involved with a metal plating business located in Pomona, CA.
EPA Criminal Investigation Division was alerted about a stream of low pH water entering the Sanitation District of Los Angeles County from a commercial site in Ponoma. Investigators found a metal plating business operating without a wastewater discharge permit. From the onset of business in Los Angeles County, the business reported no wastewater for discharge. Instead, the heavy metal-contaminated, acidic waste stream was to be evaporated on site.
The defendants plead guilty to violation of the Clean Water Act, for "operation in violation of standards unlawful". Federal District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner accepted the admission of the defendants in court, that the business had repeatedly discharged low pH water. Sentencing included two years of prison time, a federal fine and two years probation for the principal defendant. The co-defendant got one month of incarceration and a year of probation.
Incarceration: 25 months; Federal Fine: $30,000; Probation: 36 months
CWA CrimeBox briefs are compiled from EPA Criminal Enforcement records.
See last week's CrimeBox here, "Antioch concrete beam manufacturer fined $3.5 million for high pH discharges"
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