PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A Troutdale woman pleaded guilty in federal court to discharging 500,000 gallons of industrial wastewater into a sanitary sewer in Hillsboro.
Prosecutors say 35-year-old Kayla Hartley, the director of operations at the Northwest Slurry Solutions and Hydro Excavation facility in Hillsboro, marketed the company’s ability to accept and dispose of industrial wastewater from February through September 2020, but did not have the required permits nor authorization to do so.
Under Hartley’s leadership, an estimated 500,000 gallon of industrial wastewater containing pollutants such as arsenic and hydrofluoric acid were dumped into the Hillsboro sanitary sewer system…