Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Crown Chemical Fined for Dumping Caustic Waste into Local Water Supply

Jim Spain, former president of Crown Chemical in Crestwood iL, has plead guilty to illegally dumping chemical wastes into a regional sewer system. He gets off easy with a fine, home confinement and a year's probation. Crown Chemical Inc., which also pleaded guilty to charges in the case, was sentenced to pay a criminal fine, required to spend a year on probation and make a public apology. The company's manager, Catalino Uy, was fined and will spend two years on probation. The fines total $135,000.

Spain was charged in 2006 with the illegal discharges, lying to federal investigators and conspiracy. Spain admitted that he showed employees how to discharge the untreated wastewater to the local sewers, and that he also directed employees to use a hose to try to dilute the waste being discharged. During the trial he acknowledged that the illegal discharges extended for 16 years, from 1985 until 2001. Spain also admitted he had lied to federal investigators and admitted that he telephoned several employees before they arrived for work and told them to falsely tell investigators that they treated the wastewater before they discharged it.

Crown Chemical Inc., manufactures industrial and commercial home cleaning products. According to the indictment in the case, wastewater resulting from cleaning out tanks at the facility routinely was drained to the city sewer system, despite the fact that the discharges violated standards for their acid content and at times for their caustic content. The sewer system in Crestwood is a regional system that connects to a treatment plant owned by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

Guess what Chicago, you just drank toxic waste... again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The people of Crestwood need to know that their village leaders have been lying to the EPA for years and using an unauthorized well to provide drinking water for the village.

The EPA was told that Crestwood purchases all of their water (Lake Michigan water) but in reality they have been illicitly supplementing this water with water from well number one... which tested (by the EPA) for almost THREE TIMES THE MAXIMUM SAFE CONTAMINANT LEVEL FOR VINYL CHLORIDE.

The people of Crestwood have been drinking water contaminated with vinyl chloride for years.

The US EPA needs to do an investigation as the Illinois EPA seems uncapable of protecting the people of Crestwood from being poisoned by their leaders.

Crestwood falsified records, forged documents and engaged in a conspiracy to keep their use of this water a secret.

Unknown said...

Do you have any documentation to back this up? Where did you get the vinyl chloride info? Has this been in the news in Crestwood already?

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