Nov. 6, 2002 -- On Oct. 24, Bruce J. Bardonaro, the former President of Cincinnati Environmental Technologies (CET), a Middletown, Ohio, company which treats and recycles petroleum-contaminated wastewater, pleaded guilty to one pre-treatment violation of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act.
Bandonarao admitted after CET began receiving truckloads of petroleum- contaminated wastewater from a local fuel storage facility on Oct. 27, 1997, he directed an employee to bypass the company's wastewater treatment unit.
Then he discharged the wastewater directly into the public sewer system without a permit. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation division jointly with the City of Middleton, the Ohio EPA and the FBI, all of which are members of the Cincinnati Environmental Crimes Task Force.
For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov.
