Trucking company investigated for illegal dumping
The state Health Department is investigating a trucking company that allegedly dumped salty oil field wastewater on gravel roads in western North Dakota.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The state Health Department is investigating a trucking company that allegedly dumped salty oil field wastewater on gravel roads in western North Dakota.
Dunn County officials accused Killdeer-based Wylie Bice Trucking Inc. of discharging the briny water last month near Manning.
Wylie Bice says the company only sprayed fresh water on the roads to keep the dust down.
Dumping oil field wastewater on North Dakota roads is nothing new. The state Transportation Department has been putting it on roads for almost 50 years to melt ice and snow.
Dave Glatt, director of the Health Department's environmental health section, says that's considered beneficial use and allowed under state regulations.
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