[CPEO-BIF] Texas, Michigan toxic barrel case

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Texas Township man gets probation, ordered to pay $2.7 million in  
restitution in toxic barrel case

By Rex Hall Jr.
Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)
August 5, 2013

KALAMAZOO, MI -- He'll spend no time in jail, but a Texas Township  
man who stored hundreds of barrels of toxic substances on his  
property was ordered Monday to serve five years of probation and to  
pay $2.7 million in restitution for the chemical cleanup that came  
following a 2008 pole-barn fire.

"What you did does generate concern for a community," Kalamazoo  
County Circuit Judge J. Richardson Johnson told Donald Haugen. "Just  
about everyone in this community gets their drinking water from  
groundwater and there's a heightened concern about what goes into the  
soil and, ultimately, the groundwater."

...

MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette reported in January 2009 that Haugen operated  
a business near Ann Arbor in 1992 that was the site of a chemical  
explosion. Reports of the incident say investigators found more than  
250 55-gallon barrels and smaller containers with contents that were  
not identifiable.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/08/ 
texas_township_man_get_probati.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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