Dam owner pleads guilty after spilling turf, tire bits in Puyallup River
The head of a hydropower company has pleaded guilty after putting two football fields' worth of artificial turf in the Puyallup River in Pierce Cou...
March 7, 2023
5:44 AM
The head of a hydropower company has pleaded guilty after putting two football fields' worth of artificial turf in the Puyallup River in Pierce County. The Washington Attorney General's office is recommending that Electron Hydro and owner Thom Fischer pay a $1 million penalty for a misdemeanor violation, with most of the money going to help restore the river. The company put the turf and a plastic liner in the river during in-stream construction work at the century-old Electron Dam in July 2020.
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