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KANSAS COMPANY AND TWO INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE HEAVY SENTENCES IN WASTEWATER CASE
Release Date: 04/20/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2000
KANSAS COMPANY AND TWO INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE
HEAVY SENTENCES IN WASTEWATER CASE
On April 11, Allied Environmental Services Inc. (Allied) and its president Koteswara Attaluri both located in Overland Park, Kan.; and Overholt Trucking and its owner Mac DeWayne Overholt both located in Terlton, Okla., were sentenced for conspiring to violate the Safe Drinking Water Act and for fraud. In addition, Overholt was also sentenced for violating the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Over a 15-month period during 1994 and 1995, Allied removed more than 500,000 gallons of wastewater containing diesel fuel and kerosene from military facilities in Kansas and Missouri. The wastewater was collected from underground fuel storage tanks that were in the process of being removed. Some of the wastewater was transported to Oklahoma and illegally stored or injected into oil wells in three counties. Attaluri was sentenced to nearly five years in prison and Overholt was sentenced to serve more than seven years. In addition, all three defendants were ordered to pay $1.27 million in cleanup costs. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division with the assistance of EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center, the Department of Defense Criminal Investigations Service and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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