“Eight years I’ve been in business, here’s the truth about what happened. I have notified the health department myself,” said Kenny Welch, owner of Dawson’s Septic, the company whose truck was pictured on social media by a concerned citizen after seeing a vehicle dumping raw sewage in a wooded area in Horseshoe Bend.
“I hired a new guy to help me. He said the truck started messing up and instead of calling me like they should have, he thought, I’ll just dump this off to get the truck home. Well you can’t do that ever, it is never okay. We don’t do that.”
Welch stated his business provides service to a wide spread area and dumping sewer outside of the permitted areas is not a common practice.
“My guys are on the scene right now putting hydrated lime on it. We’re not hiding it and it’s being made out like we do this all the time and dump in the Strawberry River and no we do not. I have dump permits for Mammoth Spring’s Lagoon and the treatment center in Horseshoe Bend. The new guy made a mistake. I have notified the health department personally and they’re out there cleaning it up right now. Protocol calls for four bags of the hydrated lime. I told them to put 10.”
The employee has since been relieved from his position with the company.
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