Iowa man sentenced to probation for making false statement on water quality

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) – A person who pleaded responsible to creating a false assertion concerning water high quality is sentenced in federal court docket.

In keeping with the USA Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of Iowa, Kendall Dean Kipp, 53, of Yale, Iowa – roughly 55 miles west of Des Moines, submitted falsified paperwork to the State of Iowa concerning the Metropolis of Yale’s water high quality. Kipp was an authorized ingesting water operator for town.

Kipp pleaded responsible to a cost of constructing a false assertion in December 2021.

The US Legal professional’s Workplace says the water was produced for residential use and making the false assertion violated provisions of the Secure Ingesting Water Act.

“As an authorized ingesting water operator, the defendant was entrusted not solely with guaranteeing compliance with our environmental legal guidelines, however with the well being and security of the neighborhood,” stated Cate Holston, Appearing Particular Agent in Cost of EPA’s Prison Investigation Division in Lenexa, Kansas. “His actions betrayed that belief, and immediately’s sentencing demonstrates that EPA will pursue and maintain accountable those that deliberately violate the legislation.”

Kipp was sentenced Tuesday to 3 years of probation and was ordered to pay a $9,500 high quality and carry out 180 hours of neighborhood service over three years.

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