OHIO LANDFILL OWNER SENTENCED
FOR CLEAN WATER ACT VIOLATION
Release Date: 05/04/2001
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2001
OHIO LANDFILL OWNER SENTENCED
FOR CLEAN WATER ACT VIOLATION
Luke C. Hester 202-564-7818 / [email protected] On April 23, Timothy Williams, owner of the Exit C&D Landfill in Osnaburg Township, Ohio, was sentenced to four months imprisonment and four months of home confinement, and was ordered to pay $30,000 in fines and restitution for violating the Clean Water Act. Williams previously pleaded guilty to ordering an employee to illegally pump leachate from his landfill into a tributary of Indian Run Creek which runs through residential neighborhoods. The leachate contained arsenic and ammonia, which, in sufficient concentrations can be harmful to fish and aquatic life. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, and the Ohio EPA and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Cleveland.
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