(MONNETT, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced that a Crawford County man was sentenced for dumping 600 gallons of ammonia-contaminated water that ended up in a local waterway, causing a fish kill.
Wesley Christman, 62, of Monnett, was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine, complete four years of probation, and not commit any further environmental offenses. Christman pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor offense in Crawford County Municipal Court.
Investigators said while working at the Central Ohio Farmer's Co-Op in Monnett last year, Christman released 600 gallons of ammonia-contaminated water in a gravel driveway . He then watched the water flow into a storm sewer, knowing the contaminated water would then move into Allen Run, a tributary of the Little Scioto River. The polluted water ultimately caused a fish kill.
Agents with the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency investigated the case.
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