Nevada Man Sentenced for Dumping Waste into City Wastewater Systems and Lying to EPA Investigators

Matthew Thurman was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally discharging waste, collected by a business he managed, into a local wastewater treatment system, in violation of the Clean Water Act. The defendant was also ordered to pay a $680,000 fine and serve one year of supervised release. His company, ERP, was separately sentenced to three years of probation and a $680,000 fine.

For years, ERP and Thurman orchestrated illegal discharges of grease waste and wastewater collected from food-service businesses into the wastewater treatment system of the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nevada.



Below is the closest FCI in eastern California for Mr. Thurman as Nevada does not host a federal prison.





Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nevada-man-sentenced-dumping-waste-cities-wastewater-system-and-lying-investigators

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/her/