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Attorney General Files Charges Against Delaware County Sewage Plant Worker

Agents from the Environmental Crimes Section have filed charges against a Delaware man in connection with alleged falsified environmental reports submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection for a sewage treatment plant located in Glen Mills, Delaware County.
            Attorney General Linda Kelly identified the defendant as Michael Bostic, 43, 624 Brittany Circle, Townsend, Delaware. Bostic supervised operators of the Fox Valley Sewage Treatment Plant, Concord Township, Delaware County.
            Kelly explained that sewage treatment plants are required by law to monitor their discharge. Plant operators are required to measure the daily flow, pH level and total residual chlorine in the discharge, and report this information monthly to the DEP.
            Monitoring is required to certify that the sewage treatment plants are operating within the legal limits that were established in order to protect water quality in the Commonwealth.
            Kelly said that an investigation by agents from the Environmental Crimes Section determined that on two occasions in the summer of 2010 the required daily testing had allegedly not been conducted at the Fox Valley Sewage Treatment Plant. 
            Evidence and testimony regarding the case was presented to a statewide investigating grand jury, which recommended the criminal charges being filed Wednesday.
            According to the grand jury, on July 25, 2010 and August 29, 2010 Bostic failed to conduct the required tests, collect any samples and then recorded false test results.
            The grand jury found that Bostic submitted the false test results to DEP in the required monthly Discharge Monitoring Report.
            Kelly said that Bostic is charged with one count of tampering with public records, one count of unsworn falsification to authorities and one count of unlawful conduct. He was preliminarily arraigned before Glen Mills Magisterial District Judge Richard Cappelli and released on $25,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October 6.
            The case will be prosecuted in Delaware County by Senior Deputy Attorney General Brian Coffey of the Attorney General's Environmental Crimes Section.


10/3/2011

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