From: ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Philadelphia incinerator ash dumped in ocean, indictment charges
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:30:03 GMT

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

 Annapolis Man Indicted For Making False Statement on Disposal
of Ash
 To: National Desk, Environment Writer
 Contact: Howard Stewart of the U.S. Department of Justice,
          202-514-9897

   PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26 -- Michael J. Rotko, United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and 
Acting Assistant Attorney General Myles E. Flint of the
Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department
of Justice, have announced that the grand jury in Philadelphia
returned an indictment charging William P. Reilly, 66, of Annapolis,
Md., with making a false statement to the United States District
Court in Philadelphia, in violation of Title 18 United States
Code, Section 1623(a).
   The indictment arises out of an investigation by the Department
of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into the
disposal of approximately 15,000 tons of incinerator ash generated
by the city of Philadelphia.
   The indictment charges that Reilly, as vice-president of Coastal
Carriers Corp., representing the owners of the Khian Sea and
Amalgamated Shipping Co., the company that agreed to dispose of the
ash, made false statements to the district court concerning his
knowledge of the disposal and off-loading of the incinerator ash
from the Khian Sea in the fall of 1988.  Reilly appeared in United
States district court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on
Dec. 15, 1988, in a suit by Joseph Paulino & Sons Inc. against
Amalgamated Shipping Corp., Coastal Carriers Corp. and others.
   According to the indictment, in late 1986 the Khian Sea, a bulk
cargo ship, left Philadelphia for Ocean Cay, Bahamas, with
approximately 15,000 tons of incinerator ash.  The Bahamian
government refused to let the Khian Sea dispose of the ash in the
Bahamas, and the ship sailed to various Caribbean ports between
October 1986 and February 1988.  Approximately 4,000 tons of
incinerator ash from the Khian Sea was disposed of and off-loaded
in Gonaives, Haiti.
   The Khian Sea returned to the United States in March 1988 and
docked at Big Stone Beach, Del.  On May 22, 1988, it departed from
Big Stone Beach with no stated destination.  The Khian Sea then
sailed to Yugoslavia, where it entered dry dock with approximately
11,000 tons of the ash in its cargo holds.
   Before leaving Yugoslavia in August 1988 with the ash in its
holds, the ship's name was changed to Felicia and it sailed through
the Suez Canal in September 1988, arriving in Singapore in November
1988 with its cargo holds empty.
   According to the indictment, Reilly made a false statement to
the district court concerning his knowledge of the disposal and
off-loading of the incinerator ash on board the Khian Sea in the
fall of 1988.  The indictment alleges that the ash was off-loaded
from the ship after it left Philadelphia in May 1988 and was dumped
into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
   Samples of the incinerator ash taken from the four cargo holds
of the Khian Sea by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in
March, 1988, revealed that the incinerator ash contained dioxin,
cyanide, lead, cadmium, barium, arsenic, mercury, and other
environmentally hazardous substances.
   If convicted on the false statement charge, Reilly
faces a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a
$250,000 fine.
   The investigation by the Department of Justice and EPA's
Criminal Investigation Division is continuing.  The case is being
prosecuted by Howard P. Stewart, special attorney, Environmental
Crimes Section, United States Department of Justice, and Frank R.
Costello Jr., assistant United States attorney in Philadelphia.
Questions concerning this release should be directed to Howard
Stewart of the Department of Justice at 202-272-9897.
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Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario    ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca
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