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SUPERINTENDENT SENTENCED TO CONFINEMENT IN WATER CASE
Release Date: 10/28/99
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1999
SUPERINTENDENT SENTENCED TO CONFINEMENT IN WATER CASE
Ira Sidney Campbell was sentenced on Oct. 8 for conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act. Campbell was sentenced in U.S. Southern District Court in Illinois to nine months home confinement as part of a one-year sentence of probation and fined $2,000. In September 1986, while Campbell was the Superintendent of Maintenance for Chemetco Inc., he used several employees from his personal business, Industrial Fabrication and Repair Inc., to install a secret pipe at Chemetco’s secondary copper smelter. Chemetco used the pipe from September 1986 through September 1996 to discharge pollutants such as zinc, lead and cadmium into Long Lake. The discharge of these pollutants was done without a permit under the Clean Water Act. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and the Illinois EPA.
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