Wow. This one went under the radar.
Federal prosecutors and the attorney for a Logan City employee are reportedly close to reaching a deal over a charge that the employee dumped polluted water into a ditch that drains into a Cache County reservoir.
“We’ve worked through this,” said Ken Brown, representing former Logan City landfill manager Randall Rex Cook, “the prosecutor, myself and Mr. Cook.”
Now a truck driver for the city, Cook was charged last month with a misdemeanor violation of discharging pollutants into the water without a permit.
The case stems from a May, 2005, incident, in which Cook pumped thousands of gallons of leachate-contaminated spring runoff into a roadside ditch east of the landfill.
The ditch drains into Cutler Reservoir, which has had trouble in the past with fertilizer and other pollutants. Brown said there was no evidence the reservoir was contaminated because of Cook’s actions.
