Re: NANFA-- Water plant director is sentenced in fish kill

Steffen Hellner (steffen_at_hellner.biz)
Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:01:10 +0100

Good guy, judge!

Steffen

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> Datum: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:51:01 EST
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> Betreff: NANFA-- Water plant director is sentenced in fish kill
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> <A HREF="http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/094146-3711-009.html">Water plant
> director is sentenced in fish kill</A>
> http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/094146-3711-009.html
>
> For the full story, go to the above link.
>
> Water plant director is sentenced in fish kill
>
>
> Prosecutors say diesel fuel was dumped into creek to cover the facility's
> insufficient treatment of sewage.
>
>
> By Jon Murray
> jon.murray_at_indystar.com
> November 19, 2003
>
>
> A Warsaw, Ind., man who oversaw the dumping of tons of sludge and diesel fuel
> by the city's wastewater treatment plant, killing thousands of fish in a
> river, will spend nearly four years in prison.
>
> A federal judge sentenced David Van Dyke, 53, to 46 months in prison on
> Tuesday for sewage discharges and a subsequent cover-up last year while he was
> the
> Warsaw plant's director. Van Dyke, who must pay a $39,370 fine, will begin his
> prison term on Dec. 30.
>
> The sentence, by U.S. District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr., was one of the
> harshest for an environmental violation in state history. Usually such crimes
> bring probation, home detention or a few months in prison.
>
> "This was a significant sentence for an extremely serious environmental
> crime," Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Schmid said. "It polluted what was
> otherwise
> a pristine creek."
>
> Van Dyke pleaded guilty to three of 37 charges in August. Normally a plea
> bargain would result in a more lenient sentence, Schmid said, but Van Dyke
> waited
> until one week into his trial, after 26 witnesses had testified.
>
> A phone message seeking comment from Van Dyke was not returned Tuesday
> evening.
>
> The investigation began in July 2002 after thousands of dead fish were found
> in the Tippecanoe River.
>
> Investigators from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management,
> Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the federal Environmental
> Protection
> Agency traced the contamination upriver and along Walnut Creek to the Warsaw
> facility.
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