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Former PWSA supervisor sentenced to a year of probation

By Patrick Damp

September 9, 2022 / 4:41 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

CBS News Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A former supervisor of the PWSA will spend a year on probation.

James Paprocki was convicted of conspiring to violate the Federal Clean Water Act while he was a supervisor at the treatment plant near Aspinwall.

A federal court said that multiple times between 2010 and 2017, Paprocki and another employee illegally discharged sludge into the Allegheny River.

He also falsified environmental reports.

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.