NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A former plant manager and a supervisor of a wastewater pre-treatment facility have pleaded guilty in a case involving illegal dumping of untreated wastewater into the Nashville sewer system.
David Ray Stark, the former plant manager at Allwaste Onsite LLC, doing business as Onsite Environmental, and Caleb Warren Randall, a former plant supervisor, both pleaded guilty to charges including conspiring to bypass waste pretreatment systems and discharge the waste into the sewer system and to tampering with a monitoring device at the facility.
2 former wastewater supervisers indicted
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Stark and Randall admitted to bypassing treatment processes at the facility and discharging untreated wastes into the sewer system in late 2022 and early 2023. They also admitted they directed plant employees to tamper with a sampling device that Nashville’s water and sewage services department placed at the facility to monitor discharges into the sewer system in January 2023.
The two were indicted in September, according to the DOJ…