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Details Written by Green Liver Flint, Michigan - The president and owner of Oil Chem Inc. was sentenced yesterday to 12 months in prison for violating the Clean Water Act stemming from illegal discharges of landfill leachate totaling more than 47 million gallons into the city of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight and a half year period. Robert J. Massey, 70, of Brighton, Michigan, pleaded guilty on Jan. 14, to a criminal charge of violating the Clean Water Act. According to court records, Oil Chem, located in Flint, Michigan, processed and discharged industrial wastewaters to Flint’s sewer system. The company held a Clean Water Act permit issued by the city of Flint, which allowed it to discharge certain industrial wastes within permit limitations. The city’s sanitary sewers flow to its municipal wastewater treatment plant, where treatment takes place before the wastewater is discharged to the Flint River. The treatment plant’s ....