US prosecutors: Water company illegally dumped toxic waste

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Brian Melley, Associated Press
Updated 7:23 pm CDT, Thursday, July 19, 2018

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California company that sells Crystal Geyser bottled water has been charged with illegally disposing of arsenic-tainted wastewater, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The charges don't allege that CG Roxane LLC sold tainted water, but that it illegally shipped and disposed of the toxic waste filtered from well water.

A 16-count indictment in Los Angeles federal court alleged that Crystal Geyser and two other companies failed to properly disclose the toxic material they shipped in May 2015 and disposed of at a facility not permitted to treat hazardous waste.

"Our nation's environmental laws are specifically designed to ensure that hazardous wastes are properly handled from beginning to end," U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said. "The alleged behavior of the three companies charged in this indictment undermines that important objective and jeopardizes the safety of our community."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/US-prosecutors-Water-company-illegally-dumping-13089784.php

[bucolic_frolic]

1. THIS seems really out of place

Trump must believe they are wasting a great hair tonic

[Marcuse]

2. Whoa! I've bought that.

[Merlot]

3. The drinking water is fine, it was the way they disposed of the wastewater

I drink a lot of CG water, thought the company was better than this.

[packman]

4. Damn, just saw this as a new item at my local Pubix

Guess I'll stick to Zephyrhills.

[hunter]

5. When you remove all the bad stuff from water, this bad stuff has to go somewhere.

Naturally occurring arsenic is a big problem in wells worldwide.

There are areas in Los Angeles County where well water has especially high levels of arsenic, in some places so high the water is not potable.

The larger arsenic problem here in the U.S.A., by many orders of magnitude, is coal power plants. Many types of coal have high levels of arsenic. The Trump administration is hell bent on relaxing regulation of coal mining and power plant waste.