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CALIFORNIA MAN INDICTED FOR WASTE WATER VIOLATIONS
Release Date: 06/03/99
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1999
CALIFORNIA MAN INDICTED FOR WASTE WATER VIOLATIONS
On May 27, Raymond Guanill of Fairfield, Calif. was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco. He was charged with 16 counts of violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) by not following a permit issued to the Rodeo Sanitary Sewer Wastewater Treatment Plant. Guanill is alleged to have been the District Manager of the treatment plant from Dec. 1, 1992 through Nov. 7, 1997, the time period when he ordered his operators to bypass the chlorine contact chamber, an essential component of the treatment system. This equipment bypass resulted in the discharge of partially treated sewage into the San Pablo Bay, which is part of the San Francisco Bay and Rodeo Creek. The indictment also charges Guanill with failing to report and sample untreated and partially treated sewage. Guanill is also charged with tampering with and rendering inaccurate monitoring methods required by the CWA. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division and the California State Water Resource Board, and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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