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February 18, 2009

Casey Concrete Limited Sentenced To Pay a $25,000 Penalty for Water Pollution

Truro -- Nova Scotia -- Casey Concrete Limited was ordered to pay $25,000 in Nova Scotia Provincial Court in Truro on February 18, 2009 for two separate incidents involving the release of a substance deleterious to fish into fish bearing waters.

Charges were laid against Casey Concrete Limited after an investigation by Environment Canada.

The penalty includes a court ordered payment of $15,000 to the Environmental Damages Fund.

The company pleaded guilty in the Provincial Court in Truro on January 12, 2009 to releasing concrete wash water into McClure’s Brook in Truro in violation of subsection 36(3) of the Fisheries Act.  Similar charges against the company for the release of concrete wash water into Pictou Harbour were transferred to the Court in Truro for sentencing at the February 18 hearing.

An Environment Canada enforcement officer conducted an inspection of Casey Concrete Ltd.’s ready mix concrete plant located in Truro on September 22, 2006.  During the inspection, the officer determined that effluent from the facility’s concrete wash water settling ponds was being discharged into the municipal storm sewer system, which empties into McClure’s Brook.

An inspection of the company’s ready mix concrete plant in Trenton, Nova Scotia by Environment Canada on September 25, 2007 found effluent from the facility’s concrete wash water settling ponds was being discharged into the municipal storm sewer system, which empties into Pictou Harbour.

An analysis of the effluent samples collected by enforcement officers during the inspections found them to be highly alkaline, and deleterious to fish.