Man pleads guilty to illegally discharging industrial waste into Jackson sewer system
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An employee of a wastewater hauling company has pleaded guilty to accusations that he illegally dumped industrial waste into the Jackson, Mississippi, sewer system in violation of the Clean Water Act, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
William Roberts, an employee of Partridge-Sibley Industrial Services, Inc. admitted to supervising the transportation and disposal of industrial waste from Gold Coast Commodities, Inc. in Brandon, Mississippi, to a "site at a commercial entity" in Jackson, the Southern District of Mississippi U.S. Attorney's Office announced in a news release.
Due to Roberts' negligence, the waste was "trucked and hauled to a facility that was not a legal discharge point designated by the Jackson Wastewater Treatment System to receive the waste," prosecutors said.
