Fines for Concrete Slurry Dumped Into Susquehanna River

Bob Joseph/WNBF News [file][/caption]A Monroe County company and two employees are being fined for violation the Clean Water Act for dumping untreated hydro-demolition concrete slurry from a work project at the Binghamton Governmental Plaza parking garage into the Susquehanna River.

54 year old Mark Pullyblank of Caledonia and 54 year old William Clements of Victor have been sentenced to probation and fined a total of $12,000 between them for the dumping between December, 2008 and January, 2009 while Crane-Hogan Structural Systems was fined a $500,000.

Crane-Hogan of Spencerport, New York was also placed on five years probation on condition the company develop, fund and implement a comprehensive Environmental Compliance Plan to prevent future violations.

The company admitted that during the hydro-demolition project at the Governmental Complex, it discharged the slurry containing concrete and water containing concrete sediments and/or high pH related material into the Susquehanna River without a permit.

Company Project Manager, William Clements also supervised the negligent discharge of slurry from another hydro-demolition project in the Wilson Hospital Parking garage through a manhole that led to the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant.

Pullyblank was the Project Manager on the Binghamton Governmental Plaza project.