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State water officials Friday fined a Santee-based catering-truck firm $5,000 for what investigators said was illegal discharging of food-contaminated water from washing trucks.
The California Regional Water Quality Control Board imposed the penalty on Cajon Valley Catering Co., the firm that led the fight to legalize “hot trucks” in San Diego County. The board suspended an additional $15,000 fine on the condition that the company resolve the problem.
David Barker, a senior engineer for the board, said the penalty arose out of complaints from neighbors that began in April, 1985. Barker said the waste water, being discharged into the San Diego River channel, contained grease and food residue.
“It ended up as a pretty strong waste water,” he said.
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