Before Atlantic Wire Co. folded, it did in hundreds of blue crabs when it dumped toxic waste water in the Branford River, government officials said. Tuesday, a former executive pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act.
Robert Meyer, 55, pleaded guilty Tuesday to failing to report the discharge. Officials said the company dumped the dirty waste water between 2005 and early 2008. Meyer, the former vice president of finance for the firm, is the only company official to be indicted, the Hartford Courant reports.
Atlantic Wire agreed earlier this year to pay $1.5 million, and to spend nearly $900,000 to clean up its site.
Tuesday, Meyer admitted that he never reported releases of extremely acidic waste water into the river and prosecutors recommended to the judge that Meyer receive credit at his sentencing in October for accepting responsibility, the Courant reports.
Meyer is to be sentenced in October.
