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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Environment - More on "De Groot faces charges over construction"
Updating Saturday's ILB entry (2/25/06), the Huntington Herald-Press reports today, in a story by Beth Shindle:
The Polk Township dairy farmer who turned himself in over the weekend for violating environmental management laws was formally charged in Superior Court Monday morning.Johannes de Groot, 53, 8378W-200S, Andrews, was charged with two felony counts of violating environmental management laws. De Groot owns and operates de Groot Dairy Farms, located south of Andrews near Ind.-105 and CR 200S.
He turned himself in at 4:35 p.m. Sunday, according to jail records, and made a $7,000 bond shortly after at 5:15 p.m.
Court records indicated that de Groot allegedly built two structures, a dry cow barn and a silage pad, on the dairy farm property between June 1, 2005, and Sept. 13, 2005, without approval from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). Records indicate that he did obtain a building permit from the Huntington Countywide Department of Community Development for the structures in January 2005. * * *
De Groot is scheduled to appear again in court for a pretrial hearing on April 18.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 28, 2006 01:11 PM
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