Dunwoody man fined for dumping toxic chemcials

DECATUR - A Dunwoody man has pleaded guilty to dumping between 600 and 800 gallons of toxic chemicals into a stream. <br> <br> Terek Von Green was ordered Thursday to pay $61,000 in restitution to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and DeKalb County. He was also sentenced to nine years probation and 200 hours of community service. <br> <br> In May 1999, the 37-year-old Green, the owner of Chrome Wheel Concepts, a defunct company, dumped arsenic, chromium, nickel and cyanide - chemicals used in the chroming process. <br> <br> Workers at a nearby business spotted the yellowish-green liquid and notified authorities. The chemicals were contained before flowing into the Yellow River. <br> <br> Lee Ann deGrazia, legal advisor to the EPD, said Green had called a chemical disposal company in Florida but decided safe disposal was too expensive. <br> <br> She said instead, Green attached a garden hose to a pump and pumped the chemicals into the stream bed.

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