Anti-union water outfit now in court on contamination charge ("conspired to 'tamper' with tests)

[Omaha Steve]

I work at a waste water plant. This is a serious no-no!

OS

http://peoplesworld.org/anti-union-water-outfit-now-in-court-on-contamination-charge/

by: Mark Gruenberg
October 28 2011

HAMMOND, Ind. - One of the nation's biggest private water companies, which is pursuing an aggressive anti-union campaign in trying to break the back of its Utility Workers local in St. Louis, is also in federal court in Hammond, Ind., on charges of water contamination at a local sewage plant, and an attempted cover-up of that.

United Water Company, through its subsidiary United Water Environmental Services, tried to get U.S. District Judge Rudy Lozano to throw the case out. Lozano refused, and ordered it to go forward.

United and its local officials at its Gary, Ind., plant "conspired to 'tamper' with the required E. coli monitoring method by changing the levels of chlorine administered before and after taking samples for E. coli bacteria, the judge said in his ruling.

The other counts of the indictment detail 25 separate instances of alleged tampering with chlorine in the plant just before federal monitors appeared. The Clean Water Act requires the monitoring. The firm broke the law by adjusting the chlorine injected into the water up to make the plant seem "clean" when inspectors were there, and then taking the chlorine level back down again after the inspectors left.

FULL story at link.

[notadmblnd]

1. Regulations? American businesses don need no stinkin regulations!

Because they always do the right thing:sarcasm:

[Ikonoklast]

2. Ayn Rand shed a tear of joy as she read this in Hell.

Those Mighty Capitalists, Those Captains Of Industry, poisoning the useless eaters all in the name of Almighty Profits.

Corporations will kill off their customers in the long run if they can make profit in the short term.

[snot]

3. K&R'd