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Lodmi foirm mindmicted in Vernalmis dumpoing Sy DARYL FARNSWORTH broken tile, concrete and other Alegre's Kasson Road property, protected wetlands. He was in- undercutting Alegre's competi- 3ee staff wraer - industrial wastes. the state Department of Fish and formed that no fill should be tors on many waste hauling con- SACRAMENTO — A federal Alegre Trucking hauled bulk Game told Alegre's environmen- placed in the San Joaquin River tracts. grand jury handed down a three- cement, gravel, sand, dirt, food tal consultant in July 1989 that and adjacent wetlands without a In addition, last summer the count indictment against a Lodi grade materials and industrial no foreign material or pollutants valid Army Corps permit,but Al- Federal Bureau of Investigation r obtained the permit. and the Army Criminal Investi- trucking firm and its owner Fri- wastes. should be placed on the Kasson egre nevesearch day, charging the company with Alegre, 59, was vice-president Road land. Authorities claim that despite gation Division served a illegal dumping of pollutants in- of Alegre Trucking and in In July 1990, the San Joaquin their warnings,Alegre continued warrant on the business premis- to the San Joaquin River and charge of the day-to-day opera- County Public Health Services to dump pollutants into the wet- es of Alegre Trucking,802 North pro wetlands near Vernal- tion of the company during the informed Alegre that dumping lands on his property and per- Cluff Ave., Lodi. The investiga- is. years of the alleged illegal garbage and other materials on miffed dozens of truck loads of tors were looking for evidence The indictment against Frank dumping, authorities said. his Kasson Road property was a broken concrete, contaminated that Alegre was discharging haz- C. Alegre and Frank C. Alegre Two counts in the indictment violation of the state Water Code dirt, waste dirt, broken tile and ardour materials into the sani- Trucking Inc. of Lodi charges are violations of the Clean Water pertaining to unlawful disposal other debris on his land from tary sewer lines leading from the the company with dumping vari- Act, each carrying a maximum of wastes in a flood plain. January 1991 to December 1992. truck wash rack area into the ous pollutants between 1990 and penalty of three years in prison Alegre also was told the dump- Federal prosecutors said some Lodi public treatment works. 1993 into wetland areas on sev- and a fine of $50,000 per day of ing violated the San Joaquin of Alegre's employees, both pre- According to the affidavit sup- eral hundred acres of property violation. A third count is a vio- County Solid Waste Disposal Or- sent and past, admitted they porting that search warrant, Al- Alegre owns at 28902 South Kas- lation of the Refuse Act and car- dinance on disposal. dumped waste materials on the egre used hydrofluoric acid, son Road, near, Vernalis. Alegre ries a maximum penalty of one San Joaquin County officials Kasson Road property on a regu- phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid also is charged with dumping year imprisonment and a ordered Alegre to immediately lar basis between 1989 and 1992. and other hazardous materials pollutants directly into the river $100,000 fine, according to U.S. stop the dumping of garbage and The employees told investiga- as an "aluminum brightener" to and along its banks. Attorney Donald Searles. other materials on his property. tors that the "cost free" use of clean the company trucks. The The indictment lists the pollut- According to an affidavit in In March 1992, the Army the wetlands on Alegre's proper- hazardous materials then ants as truck loads of garbage, support of a search warrant that Corps of Engineers told Alegre ty was a factor used in calculat- drained into the sanitary sewer diesel contaminated dirt, sand, was served earlier this week on his property included federally ing bids and as a method for lines.