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Greer Man Guilty of Illicit Dumping
A Greer man has pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act in a case involving the illegal dumping of waste into a grease trap.
Timothy Howard, 50, of Greer, South Carolina, used an American Waste hauling truck to dump waste into a grease trap outside a Publix in Greenville County on April 2, 2011.
The grease trap was connected to the ReWa – Renewable Water Resources system, but the site was not a designated waste disposal discharge point, violating both the Clean Water Act and Howard’s permit with ReWa.
On June 18, 2013, Howard was caught again illegally dumping into another grease trap located behind a closed restaurant in Lyman, South Carolina.
The grease trap was connected to the Town of Lyman system, but this site was also not a designated discharge point, violating both the Clean Water Act and the Town of Lyman regulations.
Howard was the owner and operator of American Waste, Inc., also known as American Waste Septic Tank Service, at the time of the incidents.
United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that the maximum penalty for each count of Violating Pretreatment Standards of the Clean Water Act is imprisonment for 3 years and/or a fine of $50,000 per day of the violations.
The case was investigated by agents of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Criminal Investigations for South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, the Duncan Police Department, and the Lyman Police Department.
Assistant United States Attorney Jamie Lea Schoen of the Greenville is prosecuting the case.
Contact Person: Jamie Schoen (864) 282-2100
Key Facts
- State: South Carolina
- Category: Public Corruption|Environmental Crime|White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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