Two former employees of a wastewater testing lab in Conroe are facing federal conspiracy charges after authorities alleged they falsified test results to conceal high levels of feces and other contaminants released in local waterways.
For three years, Derek McCoy and Deena Higginbotham – former chief executive and client services director of the lab – conspired with a compliance coordinator at another company to alter official test reports filed with environmental officials, according to the indictment.
Compliance Coordinator John Montgomery is accused of flagging which wastewater treatment results lab leaders should fake through a “backdoor” in their testing system…