The (Kinda) You-Know-What Didn't Hit the Fan, But Did Hit the Road
A port-a-potty rental company has been fined for spilling – something – onto a road in Tioga County.
The DEP fined B & L Portable Toilet Rental $2,000 for spilling septage and related debris onto about half a mile of Croft Hill Road.
Septage is partially treated household waste stored in a septic tank. It is periodically pumped out by private businesses and taken to a municipal sewage treatment plant for final treatment.
DEP says company officials admitted that their driver released a tanker load of the material onto the road after unsuccessfully trying to resolve a mechanical problem with the vehicle.
DEP Northcentral Regional Director Robert Yowell says a citizen, not the company notified them of the violation, and that's inexcusable.
The DEP fined B & L Portable Toilet Rental $2,000 for spilling septage and related debris onto about half a mile of Croft Hill Road.
Septage is partially treated household waste stored in a septic tank. It is periodically pumped out by private businesses and taken to a municipal sewage treatment plant for final treatment.
DEP says company officials admitted that their driver released a tanker load of the material onto the road after unsuccessfully trying to resolve a mechanical problem with the vehicle.
DEP Northcentral Regional Director Robert Yowell says a citizen, not the company notified them of the violation, and that's inexcusable.
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