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| Company that produces Crystal Geyser bottled water pleads guilty to dumping ARSENIC in California's water system |
| 2020-01-17 |
| [MAIL] A California company that produces Crystal Geyser bottled water has pleaded guilty to illegally dumping wastewater containing arsenic. Crystal Geyser's parent company, CG Roxane, along with two contracted firms, were charged in 2018 with failing to disclose details of arsenic in wastewater transported from the bottling plant in Olancha, California. Following a court case last week, the firm agreed to a $5million fine for storing and transporting the hazardous waste, federal prosecutors said. The waste was produced by filtering arsenic out of Sierra Nevada spring water at CG Roxane LLC's facility in Owens Valley, authorities said. CG Roxane was accused of discharging the wastewater into a man-made pond for about 15 years. According to court records, the company created an 'arsenic pond' in a remote part of eastern California between Death Valley and the Sequoia National Forest and did not disclose that water pumped out of the pond and delivered to water treatment plants contained the poisonous heavy metal. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 Related foreign content in bottled water: was killing time in scenic Concrete Washington waiting to begin the day's lawn mower racing festivities when a double-bottomed tanker truck pulled up to a standpipe and connected to it and began filling. The name of a local (and prominent and pretentious) water company was emblazoned on the tanks. Whilst waiting to fill, Joe Truck Driver decided to relieve himself and did; right on the stand pipe. No more of that B/W for me..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2020-01-17 14:11 |
| #9 EPA maximum arsenic level(MCL) used to be 50 parts ber billiion. Now the MCL is 10 parts per billion. Wastewater or other arsenic contaminated material needs to have a Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP)test performed to determine if the waste stream needs to have special handling or containment performed before it can be disposed. I have been involved in two instances of going through this procedure before obtaining filter backwash water permits for water containing arsenic. It's not a big thing unless you avoid doing it. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-01-17 13:35 |
| #8 My grandfather lived in Fallon, NV, Prob had Cesium in their water too. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-01-17 10:52 |
| #7 It's a zero-sum game. Gotta go somewhere. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-01-17 09:41 |
| #6 ^ Snark o' the Day goes to Frank! |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-17 09:39 |
| #5 My grandfather lived in Fallon, NV, where they also had naturally occurring arsenic in the water. He said because of that, nobody lived past 120 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-17 06:49 |
| #4 Note too, that feds 'adjusted' the level of acceptable arsenic in water. Albuquerque always had it in the water. Then without any scientific evidence, lowered it forcing the city to spend millions on new filtering systems in their purification works. Now here you had a city with a good size population drinking under the old standards for over 50 years. Could they show any significant difference in its population's health vs one that was on the higher standard. No. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-17 06:41 |
| #3 lot of handwaving and hysterics. The arsenic is naturally-occurring and in most groundwater. They filter it out, store, and dispose of it...not a secret. The subcontractors didn't fill out the proper info, twice, and they will be fined as well: According to court records, Crystal Geyser created an "arsenic pond'' in a remote part of eastern California between Death Valley and the Sequoia National Forest and then didn't disclose that water pumped out of the pond and delivered to water treatment plants contained the poisonous heavy metal. United Pumping Services, a City of Industry waste-hauling corporation, and United Storm Water, an Industry-based company providing environmental and lake draining services, were also charged in the 16-count indictment for violations that allegedly happened in March and May 2015. The contracted companies face trial in April in Los Angeles federal court. The case focuses on the bottling plant's wastewater, not the safety or quality of Crystal Geyser's water, prosecutors said. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-17 06:18 |
| #2 At least the Snail Darter's safe. And Greta's not perturbed. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-17 01:23 |
| #1 Could be worse. Could be aviation fuel. |
| Posted by: Fred 2020-01-17 00:21 |