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Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet
Federal indictments returned on Clean Water Act violations
FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 12, 2006) – A Cincinnati, Ohio man and his sewage company have been indicted by a federal grand jury for filing false statements regarding sampling reports for a Franklin County wastewater treatment plant.
Charles G. Hungler Jr., president of Perfect-A-Waste Sewage Equipment Co., was indicted May 4 by a U.S. District Court grand jury meeting in Lexington.
Hungler filed Kentucky Pollutant Discharge Elimination System discharge monitoring reports July 28, 2005, containing sampling information for the Edgewood Wastewater Treatment Plant. Hungler is accused of falsely representing the samples were collected in accordance with federal Clean Water Act regulations.
The indictment alleges Hungler and his company “knew that most of these samples were not collected and that the entries were false,” a violation of federal law.
The indictment follows a joint investigation by the Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet’s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division, Louisville Resident Office.
According to the indictment, Hungler faces a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and one year of supervised release.
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