Wastewater Workers Plead Guilty to Ocoee River Discharge
September 14, 2005
A water district supervisor in Polk County, Tenn. pleaded
guilty to discharging untreated sewage multiple times into a
tributary of the Ocoee River.
A judge sentenced Randy David Adcock, supervisor of the
Coppertown Utilities Basin Water District in Turtletown, to two
years probation and a $1,500 fine. Adcock was also ordered to
surrender his water treatment operator license.
Ricky Cochran, an employee, received a two-year suspended
sentence and was fined $750.
The men said they discharged untreated sewage multiple times,
at night, into the Walkertown Branch tributary of the river
using a pipe they installed instead of transporting the
untreated sewage to a land disposal site.
District Attorney Jerry Estes said the men's actions posed
serious risks to public health and the local economy.
Source: EPA September 14, 2005
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