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PA LOUISIANA FIRM FINED FOR POLLUTING MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Release Date: 07/25/97
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1997
LOUISIANA FIRM FINED FOR POLLUTING MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Midstream Holding Corp., of Baton Rouge, La., was ordered to pay a $60,000 fine and serve two years probation on July 18, in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge after pleading guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act. The company was illegally dumping bilge slop containing waste oil and other wastes into the Mississippi River from approximately 1992 to 1995. The discharges came from the Midstream Fuel Service Inc. facility in Baton Rouge. Midstream provides fueling and waste disposal services to vessels on the Mississippi River. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division with the support of EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center, the U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Services, the Louisiana State Police, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
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