A viewer’s cellphone video led to a county investigation and $2,000 fine for Flotech Environmental, after footage appeared to show the company’s trucks dumping fluid into a storm drain in Miami-Dade County without proper filtration.
The company has since suspended an employee and says it has implemented new training and controls.
Witness captures repeated dumping into storm drain
Myles Houston, who works near NW 24th Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets, said he began seeing trucks from Flotech Environmental dumping fluid into a storm drain regularly. He started recording the activity on his phone.
“At least once a week this truck comes by here and dumps,” Houston says in one video…