EPA to fine Jeffersonville for river pollution

(IN) The Indianapolis Star – Federal regulators are seeking $165,000 in civil penalties from this Ohio River city for repeated sewage discharges that violate the Clean Water Act.

In a letter sent Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Jeffersonville’s penalties could have totaled more than $8 million for scores of incidents in recent years that sent untreated or inadequately treated sewage into the river. More

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