The manager of a Brooklyn metal cleaning company pleaded guilty to using a simple, secret maneuver to dump industrial toxic waste into the Newtown Creek.
Manuel Acosta, 58, of Control Electropolishing Corporation, admitted he directed his employees to insert a plug into a bypass line, sending waste and sludge — containing high levels of chromium, copper, lead and nickel — on a path to the estuary that runs between Brooklyn and Queens.
The bypass line is designed to treat the waste water before it is released into the NYC sewer system, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
Instead, the gunk traveled to the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, which does not treat industrial products. The infractions occurred between November 2013 and December 2014.
13 comments:
Prison time is appropriate.
Nah....no prison time.
Mix him a cocktail containing some creek water.
Bottoms up! Down the hatch!
Simple....sweet...appropriate punishment.
An eye for an eye - make him drink it!
Why can't the EPA find and cap all open pipes along the shore of the Newtown Creek?
He must have studied industrial engineering in China...
I know for a fact that this is not the only company doing this sort of thing. Many of the old factories in the Creek area had direct lines to dump waste that the City never knew existed and they still get used.
A foreigner who doesn't care about the heritage, country, and land. SHOCKING.
Manuel Acosta, eres una verguenza para cualquier Latino Americano. Te trajistes las picardias de tu pais al nuestro, te mataste por llegar aca solo para seguir haciendo lo que hacias alla.
Shame on you, you're a disgrace for all Latin Americans, I hope you get the punishment you deserve. I wish your family, friends and relatives scorn you because of the shame you brought on them.
They should bring back the ducking stool and dunk him in the creek!
I didn't see the part about him being an immigrant. Source, please.
Speaking of sell-outs:
http://gwapp.org/2015/10/our-polluted-history-a-non-toxic-and-fascinating-forum-on-greenpoints-environmental-past/
You don't have to go to far to find the source of the contamination. There are multiple trucks yards next to the devestated site that dump the waste they produce from maintaining the trucks and the rain spreads it out. When you have an uncle in Albany, you get away with anything. Now they just need to find a goat to blame.
So is this guy legal or what? Come on, media.
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