Three Texas residents pleaded guilty Thursday to falsifying wastewater test results to make it seem like the water was clean enough to discharge into rivers and streams in the state.
Derek McCoy, 52, ran a lab in Conroe that sampled and tested wastewater from local treatment facilities. His former employee Deena Higginbotham and his former client John Montgomery also pleaded guilty to falsifying results.
McCoy was the CEO of North Water District Laboratory Services, Inc., while Higginbotham directed its client services. McCoy and Higginbotham live in Spring, north of Houston. Montgomery lives in Llano in the Hill Country…