A federal magistrate has ordered Logan City to pay a $10,000 fine for dumping water polluted with ammonia into a ditch that drains into a Cache County reservoir.
Magistrate Brooke Wells imposed the punishment on Tuesday after the city, through an attorney, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of negligently discharging a pollutant to waters of the United States without a permit.
According to court records, Logan's then-landfill manager pumped thousands of gallons of runoff water that mixed with ammonia-containing landfill waste into a roadside ditch, which drains into Cutler Reservoir, on May 10, 2005. The dumping was a violation of the Clean Water Act.
The landfill manager, Randall Rex Cook, pleaded guilty to the same misdemeanor charge as the city and was sentenced in April to two days in jail. He became a truck driver for Logan after the incident.
A lawyer for Cook has said there was no evidence the reservoir was contaminated because of his client's actions.
