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PA LOUISIANA PORT CAPT. SENTENCED FOR CLEAN WATER ACT VIOL.

Release Date: 01/10/97
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PA LOUISIANA PORT CAPT. SENTENCED FOR CLEAN WATER ACT VIOL.

FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1997

LOUISIANA PORT CAPTAIN SENTENCED FOR CLEAN WATER ACT VIOLATION

On Jan. 3, in Baton Rouge, La., Walter Williams III was sentenced to serve four months in a halfway house and four months of home incarceration for his October 1996 guilty plea to one felony count of violating the Clean Water Act. Williams was employed as the port captain for Midstream Fuel Services Inc., which was engaged in the business of providing fueling and waste disposal services to vessels on the Mississippi River. Under Williams direction, waste oil and bilge wastes from customer vessels were collected by Midstream and, rather than being properly disposed of on shore, were instead dumped into the river. The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division with support from EPA's National Enforcement Investigations Center.

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