​News Briefs: WWTP Employees in Nashville Indicted for Bypassing Treatment

Two former wastewater treatment plant employees in Nashville have been indicted by a grand jury for bypassing treatment processes and tampering with a monitoring device. The indictment alleges that the two employees conspired to defraud the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and to violate the Clean Water Act. According to court documents, the facility operations manager and the plant supervisor directed employees to bypass treatment processes and discharge untreated and partially treated wastewater into the Nashville sewer system in December 2022 and in January 2023. The indictment further alleges that they tampered with and caused employees to tamper with a sampling device that the Metropolitan