Two water treatment operators in Siskiyou County, California, lost their operators’ licenses for failure to report bacteria in Dunsmuir and McCloud water systems. The two men, Ronald Larue and Wayne Grigsby, pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count apiece of making false statements.
The men weren’t sentenced to jail time or subjected to fines, but they were banned from operating public drinking water systems in the state of California.
“There was a clear breach of public trust in this case where the public was recklessly exposed to bacteria because these two violated their public health obligation as license
News Briefs: Two Operators Lose Licenses for Failure to Report Bacteria
Also in this week's water and wastewater news, damage from a fire at a Georgia WWTP will cost $414,000 to repair; and the U.S. EPA announces $1.9 million in research funding for lead detection and control strategies
