The president of a Fitchburg, Massachusetts, wastewater treatment company pleaded guilty to falsifying wastewater samples and test results and was sentenced to three years' probation, 50 hours of community service, fined $19,500 and will have his operator’s license suspended for four months.
The man, Kent Oldfield of New SRA Inc. and New England Engineering Group LLC, pleaded guilty to six counts of knowingly tampering with wastewater test methods and 14 counts of knowingly making false reports to the Department of Environmental Protection. He was treating wastewater for condo complexes.
“The state expects certified operators like the defendant to truthfully report
