
A long, sad chapter is about to close on the case of wastewater dumping in the Youngstown, OH area last year and earlier this year. MDN previously told you about Ben Lupo, the owner of Hardrock Excavating and its sister company D&L Energy, who instructed a one of his Hardrock employees to dump shale drilling wastewater into a storm drain (under cover of darkness) that eventually ended up in the Mahoning River. Early on it was thought there were something like six instances of illegal dumping (see
Youngstown Business Dumped >200K Gal of Untreated Wastewater).
Under oath, the employee who did the illegal dumping, Michael Guesman, admitted it was "at least" 24 times. Ouch...
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